Opentk/Source/Bind/Specifications/Docs/glClipPlane.xml
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<refentry id="glClipPlane">
<refmeta>
<refmetainfo>
<copyright>
<year>1991-2006</year>
<holder>Silicon Graphics, Inc.</holder>
</copyright>
</refmetainfo>
<refentrytitle>glClipPlane</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>glClipPlane</refname>
<refpurpose>specify a plane against which all geometry is clipped</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>void <function>glClipPlane</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>GLenum <parameter>plane</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>const GLdouble * <parameter>equation</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
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<refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>plane</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies which clipping plane is being positioned.
Symbolic names of the form <constant>GL_CLIP_PLANE</constant><emphasis>i</emphasis>,
where <emphasis>i</emphasis> is an integer between 0 and <constant>GL_MAX_CLIP_PLANES</constant>
<inlineequation><mml:math>
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<mml:mn>-1</mml:mn>
</mml:math></inlineequation>,
are accepted.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>equation</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the address of an array of four double-precision floating-point values.
These values are interpreted as a plane equation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
<para>
Geometry is always clipped against the boundaries of a six-plane frustum
in <emphasis>x</emphasis>, <emphasis>y</emphasis>, and <emphasis>z</emphasis>.
<function>glClipPlane</function> allows the specification of additional planes,
not necessarily perpendicular to the <emphasis>x</emphasis>, <emphasis>y</emphasis>, or <emphasis>z</emphasis> axis,
against which all geometry is clipped.
To determine the maximum number of additional clipping planes, call
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetIntegerv</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with argument <constant>GL_MAX_CLIP_PLANES</constant>. All
implementations support at least six such clipping planes.
Because the resulting clipping region is the intersection
of the defined half-spaces,
it is always convex.
</para>
<para>
<function>glClipPlane</function> specifies a half-space using a four-component plane equation.
When <function>glClipPlane</function> is called,
<parameter>equation</parameter> is transformed by the inverse of the modelview matrix
and stored in the resulting eye coordinates.
Subsequent changes to the modelview matrix have no effect on the
stored plane-equation components.
If the dot product of the eye coordinates of a vertex with the
stored plane equation components is positive or zero,
the vertex is <emphasis>in</emphasis> with respect to that clipping plane.
Otherwise, it is <emphasis>out</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>
To enable and disable clipping planes, call
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glEnable</refentrytitle></citerefentry> and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDisable</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with the argument
<constant>GL_CLIP_PLANE</constant><emphasis>i</emphasis>,
where <emphasis>i</emphasis> is the plane number.
</para>
<para>
All clipping planes are initially defined as (0, 0, 0, 0) in eye coordinates
and are
disabled.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="notes"><title>Notes</title>
<para>
It is always the case that <constant>GL_CLIP_PLANE</constant>
<inlineequation><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">i</mml:mi></mml:math></inlineequation>
= <constant>GL_CLIP_PLANE0</constant> +
<inlineequation><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">i</mml:mi></mml:math></inlineequation>.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
<para>
<constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>plane</parameter> is not an accepted value.
</para>
<para>
<constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if <function>glClipPlane</function>
is executed between the execution of <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBegin</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
and the corresponding execution of <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glEnd</refentrytitle></citerefentry>.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="associatedgets"><title>Associated Gets</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetClipPlane</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
</para>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glIsEnabled</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with argument <constant>GL_CLIP_PLANE</constant><emphasis>i</emphasis>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glEnable</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
<para>
Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 1991-2006
Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI
Free Software B License. For details, see
<ulink url="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</ulink>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>