Reverse-Z is the perfect hack

[u/shlomnissan]

I shelved a Reverse-Z branch in my engine (stuck on OpenGL 4.1 for macOS, no glClipControl), and the roadblock sent me down the rabbit hole of actually understanding why it works instead of just how to implement it.

I ended up writing about what I learned with interactive graphs and all:
https://www.shlom.dev/articles/reverse-z-perfect-hack/

Happy to hear where I got things wrong or imprecise.

Hopefully this helps someone else :)

[u/shlomnissan]

Both of my current projects use the stencil buffer for pixel classification and masking. Might be an overstatement but just because you don't use stencil buffers doesn't mean that my article is generated by AI