@article{Yuan:1997:PBH,
  number = {3},
  month = jun,
  optnote = {},
  author = {Xiaobu Yuan and Hanqiu Sun},
  optkey = {},
  localfile = {papers/Yuan.1997.PBH.pdf},
  journal = j-CAG,
  doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0097-8493(97)00013-7},
  volume = {21},
  opturl = {},
  optwww = {},
  optstatus = {},
  abstract = {Despite the emergence of highly realistic computer-generated
              images, line-drawing images are still a common practice in showing
              the shapes and movements of three-dimensional objects. It is
              especially true when rendering time is critical in interactive
              applications such as the modeling and testing stage of computer
              aided design/manufacturing, computer animation, and virtual
              reality. Hence much effort has been devoted to provide sufficient
              information of the displayed objects with the least amount of
              time. While the techniques that determine visible surfaces in an
              image-space have the advantages on rendering speed and processable
              shapes, those that decide visible lines or line segments in an
              object-space are more suitable for showing hidden lines. The
              P-buffer algorithm introduced in this paper is a method for
              rendering line-drawing images with dashed hidden-lines. Being an
              image-space method, this algorithm preserves the low computational
              cost and works on a wide range of object shapes; as an extension
              to the Z-buffer algorithm it, moreover, discloses hidden surfaces
              by showing them with dashed lines. After a discussion on rendering
              techniques of line-drawing images, this paper presents this
              algorithm with pseudocode in C++ programming language and shows
              some experimental results as well. This image-space algorithm can
              be used as a compromise approach that reveals the concealed
              information of hidden-surface-removed views for time-critical
              rendering.},
  title = {{P}-{B}uffer: {A} {H}idden-{L}ine {A}lgorithm in {I}mage-{S}pace},
  year = {1997},
  pages = {359--366},
}