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INTRODUCTION
c) SURFACE TEST
SORTING AND COHERENCE FORMULATION & IMPLEMENTATION SAMPLE HIDDEN-LINE ALGORITHMS -THE PRIORITY ALGORITHM
CONCLUSION
DETERMINATION OF HIDDEN EDGES & SURFACESCHALLENGING PROBLEM IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS REMOVAL ALGORITHM-BUILT INTO LOCAL HARDWARE PROCESSORS OF GRAPHIC DISPLAY TO SPEED UP THEIR EXECUTION REMOVAL ALGORITHM-TWO TYPES i.e. HIDDEN LINE & HIDDEN SURFACE FORMER SUPPORTS VECTOR DEVICES WHILE LATTER SUPPORTS RASTER DISPLAY
VISIBILITY
RELY ON LOCATION OF VIEWING EYE,DIRECTION,PROJECTION TYPE & DEPTH LINE REMOVAL OF PERSPECTIVE VIEW IS DIIFICULT THAN ORTHOGRAPHIC VIEW COMPARISON-A CENTRAL CRITERION USED BY HLA TO DETERMINE VISIBILITY
HIDDEN
DEPTH
IF
TECHNIQUES
ARE THERE WHICH ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLYGONS AND EDGES IN VIEWING PLANE
KNOWN
TSES A POLYGON SURROUNDING BY A BOX & CHECKS FOR INTERSECTION OF ANY TWO BOXES IF TWO BOXES DOES NOT INTERSECT & POLYGONS DO NOT OVERLAP,NO FURTHER TESTING NEEDED IF MINIMAX TEST FAILS,POLYGONS MAY OR MAY NOT OVERLAP THEN COMPARISON TAKES PLACE
THIS
TEST DETERMINES WHETHER A POINT LIES INSIDE A GIVEN POLYGON METHODS OF COMPUTING CONTAINMENT CONVEX POLYGON-USE X & Y COORDINATE AND LINE EQUATION NON CONVEX POLYGONINTERSECTION METHOD & ANGLE METHOD
THREE
FOR
FOR
ALSO
TEST
EQUATION
IF
A GIVEN POINT IS NOT ON THE PLANE,LHS OF EQUATION HAS POSITIVE SIGN IF POINT LIES ON ONE SIDE OF PLANE AND NEGATIVE IF OPPOSITE CASE OCCURS.
SORTING
OPERATE ON RECORD OF SCENE DATABASE SORTING IS AN OPERATION THAT ORDERS A GIVEN SET OF RECORDS AS PER SELECTED CRITERION COHERENCE IS A MEASURE OF HOW RAPIDLY A SCENE OR ITS IMAGE CHANGES COHERENCE IS AN AID USEFUL IN SORTING TECHNIQUES
THERE
EXISTS WEALTH OF HIDDEN LINE ALGORITHM THAT UTILIZES ONE OR MORE OF THE VISIBILITY TECHNIQUES
PLANE
Hidden line removal is an extension of wireframe model rendering where lines (or segments of lines) covered by surfaces are not drawn. Although the ability of the algorithm to correctly remove hidden lines is clear, the way in which the algorithm removes these lines is hard to see. Although much of the initial work in the field of hidden line removal was done by Arthur Appel, the field is still growing as there are exceptions when his algorithm is not effective.