Posted by gouessej on Apr 24, 2018; 8:05am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Order-of-children-not-necessary-respected-tp4038695p4038839.html

The sort can be used to apply the Painter's algorithm : "painting distant parts of a scene before parts which are nearer thereby covering some areas of distant parts" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painter%27s_algorithm