Culling and Separators

Jim Race ([email protected])
Sun, 30 Apr 1995 20:57:30 +0700


Could someone put the following into human-speak please?

Separators can also perform culling during rendering and picking. Culling skips
over traversal of the separator's children if they are not going to be
rendered or
picked, based on the comparison of the separator's bounding box with the current
view volume. Culling is controlled by the renderCulling and pickCulling fields.
These are also set to AUTO by default, allowing the implementation to decide
whether or not to cull.

CULLING ENUMS
ON Always try to cull to the view volume
OFF Never try to cull to the view volume
AUTO Implementation-defined culling behavior

FILE FORMAT/DEFAULTS
Separator {
renderCulling AUTO # SFEnum
}

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