From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Drew Kessler
[dkessler@eecs.lehigh.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:45 PM
To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Far clipping planes


Jeff,

The default far clipping plane in SVE is 5000 meters, although it is
completely configurable at run-time.  This distance keeps students new 
to computer graphics and VR from coming to me complaining about
disappearing objects :)

I like the idea of calculating it based on the global bounding volume, 
though.  So, ask me tomorrow and I may give you a different answer.

-Drew

On Wednesday, August 16, 2000, Jeff Pierce wrote:
 > Here's a quick question for the list.  In the 3D toolkit you use, whatever
 > it may be, where do you typically set the far clipping plane distance?  Or,
 > if you never change it, what is the default distance?
 > 
 > Jeff
 > 

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