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From: lhf@aries5.uucp (Luiz H. deFigueiredo)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Vector Clipping
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Date: 15 Aug 89 02:06:32 GMT
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In article <4670@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> peteru@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Peter Uchytil) writes:
>Hi, I need an algorithm that will do vector clipping.  Ideally it would
>work like this: give it the clipping window and the endpoints of the 
>vector and it gives you the new endpoints back.  There must be an 
>algorithm of this type somewhere out there.  Can someone point me in the
>right direction?  Thanks!

How about one of the text books like
 Newman & Sproll, Foley & van Dan, Baker, Harrison, etc...
They all explain the Choen-Sutherland algorithm for vector clipping.
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