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From: fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: clipping algorithms
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.140638.8787@vitro.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 14:06:38 GMT
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In <1991Feb12.070730.1051@ice9.uucp> bgh@ice9.uucp (barry hannigan) writes:

>i'm building a graphics interface to a engineering simulation system my company
>is developing and am looking for information on which clipping algorithm might
>be best suited for the job.

Check out Jim Blinn's Corner in "IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications."
November 1990, Vol. 10 No. 6 (ISSN 0272-1716)
It's got what looks like an idea solution for you.

I wish I had this when I wrote the software for a graphics board
we designed.  I used the latest SIGGraph article on clipping and
it worked pretty well, but this one looks so much cleaner.  It
also is very well suited for polylines.
I was going to code it up when I have the time one of these days.

Hope this helps.
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