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4. Back-face culling<br />

• Assumption: Objects are solid polyhedra,<br />

i.e., opaque faces completely enclose its<br />

volume<br />

• If viewed from outside, only exterior is<br />

visible<br />

• So we see only faces<br />

whose surface normals<br />

point towards us<br />

© Machiraju/Zhang/Möller<br />

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