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[Algorithms] Rendering (a portion of) a Plane

[Jeremy B. <Jer...@in...>]

I've been working on my viewport culling and I just wanted to test something
out
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to render a portion of a plane
around
a particular point using the 
Normal + distance version of a plane.
I think it relates to 
Normal[0] * X + Normal[1] * y + Normal[2] * z + distance = 0
but I can't seem to get my head around how I could draw this function
over a specific range...  any help would be Greatly appreciated

Jeremy Bake
RtroActiv 

Re: [Algorithms] Rendering (a portion of) a Plane

[Angel P. <ju...@bi...>]

> I've been working on my viewport culling and I just wanted to test
something
> out
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to render a portion of a plane
> around
> a particular point using the
> Normal + distance version of a plane...

This code will create a huge quad liying on a plane.
In your case - you can create such a quad for each frustum plane and
clip it to the other frustum planes.

  int maxaxis=0, a2, a3;
 for( int i=1; i<3; i++ )
  if( fabs(P.Normal[i]) > fabs(P.Normal[maxaxis]) )
   maxaxis=i;
 switch( maxaxis )
 {
 case 0: a2=1; a3=2;
  break;
 case 1: a2=0; a3=2;
  break;
 case 2: a2=1; a3=0;
  break;
 }
 Verts[0][a2] = Verts[0][a3] = Verts[1][a2] = Verts[3][a3] = LEVEL_BOX_SIZE;
 Verts[1][a3] = Verts[2][a2] = Verts[2][a3] = Verts[3][a2]
= -LEVEL_BOX_SIZE;
 Verts[0][maxaxis]= ( P.D - P.Normal[a2] * LEVEL_BOX_SIZE - P.Normal[a3] *
LEVEL_BOX_SIZE )/P.Normal[maxaxis];
 Verts[1][maxaxis]= ( P.D - P.Normal[a2] * LEVEL_BOX_SIZE + P.Normal[a3] *
LEVEL_BOX_SIZE )/P.Normal[maxaxis];
 Verts[2][maxaxis]= ( P.D + P.Normal[a2] * LEVEL_BOX_SIZE + P.Normal[a3] *
LEVEL_BOX_SIZE )/P.Normal[maxaxis];
 Verts[3][maxaxis]= ( P.D + P.Normal[a2] * LEVEL_BOX_SIZE - P.Normal[a3] *
LEVEL_BOX_SIZE )/P.Normal[maxaxis];