slacking

[fireyice]

I'm having troubles concentrating this afternoon. So instead of working I've been thinking about a question that someone asked in my graphics class earlier this afternoon. Assume that you have a box and there is a triangle that partially sticks outside of the box. If you clip off the parts of the triangle sticking outsid, what is the maximum

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[mrsmalkav]

3 per side

[fireyice]

hmm, I don't think that's correct. I don't know why you didn't pick the internal triangle lines.

[mrsmalkav]

new polygon subset of triangle. oh.

[fireyice]

The practical application of this is:
The box represents what you can see. The triangle is some graphics object that is partially inside your vision and partially out. For a graphics chip, it is excess computing power to spend time computing shading, textures, etc onto something that won't be seen on the screen, so the hardware cuts off the parts that are outside the view window.

[drspin]

the whole problem changes of course in the case that you have a truncated pyramid for your frustum...like you would in a perspective projection.

[mrsmalkav]

i now have 8

[mrsmalkav]

i meant 9

[mrsmalkav]

i can't count

i just want to send you more email

[fireyice]

Do you have a pic?

[mrsmalkav]

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[fireyice]

ahh, it all makes sense now!

[redstickman]

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