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+#pragma once
+#include "camera.h"
+#include "defines.h"
+#include "ral_types.h"
+#include "render_types.h"
+
+// Frame lifecycle on CPU
+
+// 1. extract
+// 2. culling
+// 3. render
+// 4. dispatch (combined with render for now)
+
+typedef struct Cull_Result {
+  u64 n_visible_objects;
+  u64 n_culled_objects;
+  u32* visible_ent_indices; // allocated on frame arena
+  size_t index_count;
+} Cull_Result;
+
+// everything that can be in the world, knows how to extract rendering data
+typedef void (*ExtractRenderData)(void* world_data);
+
+typedef struct Renderer Renderer;
+
+/** @brief Produces a smaller set of only those meshes visible in the camera frustum on the CPU */
+Cull_Result Frame_Cull(Renderer* ren, RenderEnt* entities, size_t entity_count, Camera *camera);
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