Shadow volume

Shadow volume - technique in computer graphics. Article “Shadow volume” in English Wikipedia has 29.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.55 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Shadow volume” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shadow volume”, its content was written by 96 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 160 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 105 times in English Wikipedia and cited 168 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18425 in August 2005
• Global: #21573 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #11594 in November 2011
• Global: #25670 in November 2011

There are 7 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	English (en) Shadow volume		29.5386
2	German (de) Schatten (Computergrafik)		26.1388
3	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvolume		13.7183
4	Polish (pl) Carmack’s Reverse		12.2986
5	Chinese (zh) 阴影体		8.5238
6	French (fr) Carmack's Reverse		1.1707
7	Serbian (sr) Просторне сенке		0.1653

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shadow volume" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shadow volume		963 066
2	French (fr) Carmack's Reverse		36 286
3	German (de) Schatten (Computergrafik)		26 719
4	Chinese (zh) 阴影体		11 173
5	Polish (pl) Carmack’s Reverse		8 750
6	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvolume		2 940
7	Serbian (sr) Просторне сенке		1 743

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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 "Shadow volume" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shadow volume		4 083
2	French (fr) Carmack's Reverse		122
3	Chinese (zh) 阴影体		52
4	Polish (pl) Carmack’s Reverse		31
5	German (de) Schatten (Computergrafik)		27
6	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvolume		17
7	Serbian (sr) Просторне сенке		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 "Shadow volume" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shadow volume		96
2	French (fr) Carmack's Reverse		25
3	German (de) Schatten (Computergrafik)		15
4	Polish (pl) Carmack’s Reverse		10
5	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvolume		6
6	Chinese (zh) 阴影体		5
7	Serbian (sr) Просторне сенке		3

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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 "Shadow volume" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shadow volume		2
2	German (de) Schatten (Computergrafik)		0
3	French (fr) Carmack's Reverse		0
4	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvolume		0
5	Polish (pl) Carmack’s Reverse		0
6	Serbian (sr) Просторне сенке		0
7	Chinese (zh) 阴影体		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 "Shadow volume" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shadow volume		105
2	Chinese (zh) 阴影体		29
3	German (de) Schatten (Computergrafik)		10
4	Serbian (sr) Просторне сенке		9
5	French (fr) Carmack's Reverse		8
6	Polish (pl) Carmack’s Reverse		6
7	Dutch (nl) Schaduwvolume		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Schatten (Computergrafik)
en	English Shadow volume
fr	French Carmack's Reverse
nl	Dutch Schaduwvolume
pl	Polish Carmack’s Reverse
sr	Serbian Просторне сенке
zh	Chinese 阴影体

Best Rank

English: #11594 11.2011

Global: #25670 11.2011

Best Rank

English: #18425 08.2005

Global: #21573 07.2004

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