An object is composed of a 101 × 101 quadrilateral mesh (i.e., 100 × 100 quadrilaterals). On average, each quadrilateral in the mesh projects to 50 pixels. There are 150 objects in the scene. The graphics monitor has resolution 2560 × 1440. Estimate the number of elementary operations needed by i) Z buffer ii) Ray casting for which the objects are all spheres iii) Ray casting for which the objects are all complex. For this question, assume that it is easy to test whether a pixel ray intersects a triangle

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An object is composed of a 101 × 101 quadrilateral mesh (i.e., 100 × 100 quadrilaterals). On average, each quadrilateral in the mesh projects to 50 pixels. There are 150 objects in the scene. The graphics monitor has resolution 2560 × 1440. Estimate the number of elementary operations needed by
i) Z buffer
ii) Ray casting for which the objects are all spheres
iii) Ray casting for which the objects are all complex. For this question, assume that it is easy to test whether a pixel ray intersects a triangle

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