Bucket Sort

4. Bucket Sort

• Why Important: Bucket Sort works well when the data is uniformly distributed and falls within a known range.
• Where It’s Useful:
  • Depth Sorting: Sort objects by their Z-depth for transparency.
  • Light Probes or Particles: Sorting objects into spatial buckets for rendering optimizations.
  • Sorting textures or UV coordinates into regions when packing atlases.

Why Bucket Sort?:

• Very fast O(N) sorting when data can be grouped into buckets (common in spatial optimizations).