Who wants to have spent years working on this only to find out that octrees, which are probably crucial to this technique, have already been patented several times over?
"Patent 4694404 covers the use of octrees to implement a nearer-object-first painting order. Patent 5123084 describes a similar nearest-first octree graphics method. Patent 5222201 also concerns octree graphics methods, and describes a heuristic for speeding up the conversion of objects into octree representations."
"Patent 4694404 covers the use of octrees to implement a nearer-object-first painting order. Patent 5123084 describes a similar nearest-first octree graphics method. Patent 5222201 also concerns octree graphics methods, and describes a heuristic for speeding up the conversion of objects into octree representations."
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/gina/quadtree.html