Hidden-surface determination

Hidden surface determination - visibility in 3D computer graphics. Article “Hidden-surface determination” in English Wikipedia has 19.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.38 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Hidden-surface determination”, its content was written by 100 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 183 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 155 times in English Wikipedia and cited 254 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12929 in February 2004
• Global: #31233 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #61739 in April 2011
• Global: #86144 in April 2011

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Sichtbarkeitsproblem		37.9509
2	Finnish (fi) Piilopintojen poisto		27.0651
3	French (fr) Potentially visible set		24.1882
4	English (en) Hidden-surface determination		19.1558
5	Spanish (es) Determinación de cara oculta		15.0472
6	Polish (pl) Usuwanie niewidocznych powierzchni		10.7415
7	Italian (it) Determinazione della superficie nascosta		5.8796
8	Indonesian (id) Penentuan permukaan tersembunyi		3.6844

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Hidden-surface determination" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hidden-surface determination		948 663
2	German (de) Sichtbarkeitsproblem		65 926
3	Polish (pl) Usuwanie niewidocznych powierzchni		53 694
4	Spanish (es) Determinación de cara oculta		25 472
5	French (fr) Potentially visible set		7 835
6	Italian (it) Determinazione della superficie nascosta		1 628
7	Finnish (fi) Piilopintojen poisto		945
8	Indonesian (id) Penentuan permukaan tersembunyi		77

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Hidden-surface determination" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hidden-surface determination		2 919
2	German (de) Sichtbarkeitsproblem		60
3	Polish (pl) Usuwanie niewidocznych powierzchni		51
4	Italian (it) Determinazione della superficie nascosta		21
5	Finnish (fi) Piilopintojen poisto		19
6	French (fr) Potentially visible set		18
7	Spanish (es) Determinación de cara oculta		16
8	Indonesian (id) Penentuan permukaan tersembunyi		7

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Hidden-surface determination" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hidden-surface determination		100
2	German (de) Sichtbarkeitsproblem		26
3	French (fr) Potentially visible set		18
4	Spanish (es) Determinación de cara oculta		14
5	Polish (pl) Usuwanie niewidocznych powierzchni		12
6	Italian (it) Determinazione della superficie nascosta		8
7	Finnish (fi) Piilopintojen poisto		4
8	Indonesian (id) Penentuan permukaan tersembunyi		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Hidden-surface determination" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Sichtbarkeitsproblem		0
2	English (en) Hidden-surface determination		0
3	Spanish (es) Determinación de cara oculta		0
4	Finnish (fi) Piilopintojen poisto		0
5	French (fr) Potentially visible set		0
6	Indonesian (id) Penentuan permukaan tersembunyi		0
7	Italian (it) Determinazione della superficie nascosta		0
8	Polish (pl) Usuwanie niewidocznych powierzchni		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Hidden-surface determination" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hidden-surface determination		155
2	German (de) Sichtbarkeitsproblem		34
3	Polish (pl) Usuwanie niewidocznych powierzchni		27
4	Spanish (es) Determinación de cara oculta		18
5	Finnish (fi) Piilopintojen poisto		10
6	French (fr) Potentially visible set		6
7	Italian (it) Determinazione della superficie nascosta		4
8	Indonesian (id) Penentuan permukaan tersembunyi		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Sichtbarkeitsproblem
en	English Hidden-surface determination
es	Spanish Determinación de cara oculta
fi	Finnish Piilopintojen poisto
fr	French Potentially visible set
id	Indonesian Penentuan permukaan tersembunyi
it	Italian Determinazione della superficie nascosta
pl	Polish Usuwanie niewidocznych powierzchni

Best Rank

English: #61739 04.2011

Global: #86144 04.2011

Best Rank

English: #12929 02.2004

Global: #31233 02.2004

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