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Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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Sun, 3 Oct 1999 02:56:28 GMT
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Steve:

Why not simply:
1 16 0 -4 0 -4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 4-4cyli.dat
1 16 0 -4 0 6 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 6 4-4cyli.dat

Assuming the primitives are all defined so their faces are turned outward.

Jacob:

Because our clever rendering programs will notice that the
first transformation matrix has negative determinant, and
therefore will swap the CW and CCW checks.

Why?  Having a negative determinate *should* turn subfiles inside-out.
IMO.  That's a useful function.  Having programs checking determinates is
not useful, and wastes rendering time.

Steve



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  Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
 
Steve: (...) Hmm??? Yes you're right (again :-). Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
 
Steve: (...) Because our clever rendering programs will notice that the first transformation matrix has negative determinant, and therefore will swap the CW and CCW checks. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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