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A Note on 3D‐Clip Optimisation
Author(s) -
Hübl Josef
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8659.1220159
Subject(s) - clipping (morphology) , computer science , pipeline (software) , transformation (genetics) , computer graphics (images) , plane (geometry) , task (project management) , volume (thermodynamics) , engineering drawing , geometry , mathematics , programming language , engineering , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , gene , systems engineering
In order to optimize the transformation‐clipping‐pipeline of PHIGS or GKS‐3D it is sometimes necessary to determine whether a plane intersects a perpendicular volume or not. The solution to this problem is not very complicated. This paper offers a more effective procedure that handles this task.