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- From: bruceh@sgi.com (Bruce R. Holloway)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Need help for z-buffer problem on INDIGO
- Message-ID: <pl5ujro@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 21:14:14 GMT
- References: <21181@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> <pl1ln1o@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <pl1ln1o@fido.asd.sgi.com> bruceh@sgi.com (Bruce R. Holloway) writes:
- >
- >Yes, I think you are right. In the perspective case, far points will be
- >foreshortened, which will put them closer in the z-buffer. In the ortho
- >case, the z-buffer values should be a linear function of object space z's.
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- Please excuse me for following up my own post, but when I read this,
- I realized I should have said "linear function of object space coordinates".
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- Regards, bruceh
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