Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Anthony Tunjen Hsieh

Jeffrey E Stall

Christopher N Raubacher

Harneet Singh Sidhana

Geoffrey Tyler Trousdale

Danielle Renee Neuberger

Object sets are often organized and traversed in a hierarchical manner according to ownership, wherein a subset of contained objects are processed before or after a containing object that contains the contained objects. Such object sets may also be presented as a scene, which may involve traversing the object set in a drawing order, such as a descending distance order that renders objects in a back-to-front manner. It may be difficult to reconcile these distinct traversal techniques, particularly if different portions of the object set utilize a different traversal order. Presented herein are hybrid traversal techniques in which a selected subset of related objects is identified and traversed in a drawing order, and the remainder of the object set is traversed in an ownership order, in furtherance of various tasks that involve hybrid traversal orders and/or to facilitate the traversal of different types of object subsets within the object set.

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Anthony Tunjen Hsieh