Method and system for rendering graphical objects to image chunks

A method of generating images for display in a frame or other view space of a physical output device, the method comprising:

• identifying a potentially visible object in a scene and a corresponding two-dimensional region of the view space to render the potentially visible object into;
• dividing the two-dimensional region among plural image portions or chunks;
• sorting the object geometry of the potentially visible object among the plural image portions or chunks;
• repeating the identifying, dividing, and sorting steps for at least one more object in the scene;
• rendering the scene including serially rendering object geometry for at least two of the image portions or chunks of the scene to produce a rendered image;
• storing the rendered chunks for objects in the scene in a randomly accessible chunk format;
• retrieving the rendered chunks for the objects in the chunk format;
• compositing pixels from the rendered chunks of the objects to compute a display image representing the objects in the scene;
• and
• repeating the above steps to process and display subsequent display images.