OpenGL scanline algorithm - does it use rays and bounding boxes?

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I'm studying how scanline algorithms work and I'm wondering whether to determine the closest hit per each pixel a ray is shooted like ray tracing algorithms and, in that case, if bounding boxes are used to determine if there's an intersection or not

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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No, OpenGL is not a ray tracer. For depth testing you would typically use a depth buffer (check Wikipedia).

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OpenGL scanline algorithm - does it use rays and bounding boxes?

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