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   wolfgang kern to R.Wieser   
   Re: Line clipping w. Cohen-Sutherland -    
   09 Oct 20 12:34:51   
   
   From: nowhere@nospicedham.never.at   
      
   On 09.10.2020 09:53, R.Wieser wrote:   
   [...]   
   > The thing is that the Cohen-Sutherland algorithm seems to make the whole   
   > thing more complicated (and costly in the sense of total instructions - even   
   > in pseudo-code) than what you and I ended up with. And that does not make   
   > any sense.  As such I came to the conclusion I must be missing something in   
   > that algorithm.  The question is, what ?   
      
   cannot see any sense in it either, perhaps just to explain what clipping   
   is to non-aware folks.   
   my clip is in the final dot-drawer, so what's outside become ignored but   
   may delay the whole story.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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