US Patent 7450123 System and method for render-to-texture depth peeling

A system, method and computer program product are provided for performing depth peeling. In use, a first rendering pass is executed for collecting information relating to a first depth layer. Further, at least one additional rendering pass is executed for collecting additional information relating to at least one additional depth layer. Depth peeling is carried out during the execution of the rendering passes by rendering an object, creating a texture based on the rendered object, and rendering the object again utilizing the texture.