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Polygon & Text Clipping

The document discusses different techniques for polygon clipping, including: - The Cyrus-Beck algorithm for convex polygon clipping against non-rectangular windows - Splitting concave polygons into convex sub-polygons for clipping against non-rectangular windows - Clipping polygons by considering each edge pair in succession and applying rules to determine if an intersection point or vertex should be output - Bounding box tests can provide early rejection of objects before full clipping calculations

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Polygon & Text Clipping

The document discusses different techniques for polygon clipping, including: - The Cyrus-Beck algorithm for convex polygon clipping against non-rectangular windows - Splitting concave polygons into convex sub-polygons for clipping against non-rectangular windows - Clipping polygons by considering each edge pair in succession and applying rules to determine if an intersection point or vertex should be output - Bounding box tests can provide early rejection of objects before full clipping calculations

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Virendra Singh Kushwah Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science

A convex polygon will always have an interior angle with a measure that is less than 180 degrees.

A concave polygon will always have an interior angle with a measure that is greater than 180 degrees.

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Note: Need to consider each of 4 edge boundaries

Input each edge (vertex pair) successively. Output is a new list of vertices. Each edge goes through 4 clippers. The rule for each edge for each clipper is:
If first input vertex is outside, and second is inside, output the intersection and the second vertex If first both input vertices are inside, then just output second vertex If first input vertex is inside, and second is outside, output is the intersection If both vertices are outside, output is nothing

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Inside to inside: Output: v2

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Outside to outside: Output: nothing

Outside to inside: Output: v1 and v2

Inside to outside: Output: v1

before clipping

after clipping

before clipping

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original polygon

left clip

right clip

bottom clip

top clip

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Similar methods as for lines and polygons but more processing is required due to nonlinear equations. For a curved object a bounding rectangle can be used to make a first test for overlap.

before clipping

after clipping

Line clipping using nonrectangular polygon clip windows


Convex polygon
Cyrus-Beck algorithm can be readily extended

Concave polygon
Split the concave polygon into convex polygons

Vector Method for Concave Splitting


Calculate edge-vector cross products in a counterclockwise order If any z component turns out to be negative, the polygon is concave

Polyline vs polygon fill-area

Early rejection is useful


Bounding box of polygon fill area
Clipping Window

Clip against 4 infinite clip edges in succession

Accept a series of vertices (polygon) and outputs another series of vertices Four possible outputs

The algorithm correctly clips polygons, but may display extraneous lines for polygons

For an outside-to-inside pair of vertices, follow the polygon boundary For an inside-to-outside pair of vertices, follow the window boundary in a clockwise direction

Polygon clipping using nonrectangular polygon clip windows

In general, methods depend on how characters are represented However, three strategies can be followed: all-or-none string clipping

all-or-none character clipping

use a bounding rectangle for the string

individual character clipping

use a bounding rectangle for the character like line/curve clipping (outlined chars) compare individual pixels (bit-mapped)

All-or-none text clipping


Using boundary box for the entire text

All-or-non character clipping


Using boundary box for each individual character

Character clipping
Vector font: Clip boundary polygons or curves Bitmap font: Clip individual pixels

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