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- From: ads@canon.co.uk (Adam Billyard)
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- Subject: Re: Clipping point generation
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- Date: 20 Jan 93 23:17:42 GMT
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- danielbt@cs.curtin.edu.au (Brett Daniel) writes:
-
- > Can you describe a convex polygon that intersects all six clipping planes?
- > I can only think of a 3D convex polygon intersecting a maximum of four planes.
- > Unless you count the polygon intersecting with the edges and corners
- > of the clipping planes. But even in this case one point would be clipped away
- > and only two vertices added.
-
- Its quite possible to cut all 6 planes; imagine a plane that cuts the
- parallelpipe in a bit like the way the ribbons on a christmas present
- might be arranged. I mean the ones that are wrapped in a shop.. The
- plane cuts through the corner of the top face and continues to the
- diagonally opposite corner cutting the bottom face in a similar manner.
-
- i.e.
- ----------------
- \ \
- |\ \
- | \ \
- | \ /\
- | \ / \
- | ---------==-----
- | | === |
- |====|=== |
- \ | |
- \ | |
- \ | |
- \ | |
- \----------------
-
- [Cube rendered with backface culling=ON, edges=ON, projection type=PARALLEL and
- 14 area light sources]
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- Adam
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