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Re: Clipping / CCW / CW / INVERT
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:09:21 GMT
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RUI.MARTINS@nomorespamLINK.PT
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Steve Bliss wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:15:40 GMT, Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote:
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> Follow-up note: the more I look at this, the more I like using WINDING /
> CLIPPING instead of FACE. For reasons listed by Rui, for more flexibility,
> for the ability to enable clipping without specifying the winding.
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> I see two possible approaches:
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> 0 FACE [CW|CCW|DS|UNKNOWN]
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> or
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> 0 WINDING [CW|CCW|UNKNOWN]
> 0 CLIPPING [ON|OFF|ENABLED|DISABLED|0|1|-1]
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> Steve
I don't need the WINDING UNKNOWN, since it's redundant with CLIPPING OFF.
When clipping is OFF you don't care the state of the winding.
I am curious, what is CLIPPING -1 ? an UNKNOWN, CLIPPING when not found
is assumed as OFF (the safe side), no UNKNOWN needed either.
Rui Martins
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| (...) I put in WINDING UNKNOWN because it explicitly states that the winding is unknown (and probably bad). This way, you can effectively disable clipping for a particular section of (unchecked) code, without having to force clipping back on at the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Clipping / CCW / CW / INVERT
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| On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:15:40 GMT, Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote: Follow-up note: the more I look at this, the more I like using WINDING / CLIPPING instead of FACE. For reasons listed by Rui, for more flexibility, for the ability to enable (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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