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Clip primitive and its mode input

Archive · 2006 2 old posts

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oddson ·

I'm not too sure what some of the mode selectors are supposed to do with the clip component.

The issue as I see it stems from the fact that the the two areas being used for the different modes alway include one that is the same of the defined area for the drawn object. This results in two useless, and one redundant mode (I think). 😕

The modes are Intersect, Union, Complement, Exclude, XOR

Intersect is clear enough and it's what most of us would want to do with this component. It clips the drawn element to the inside of the area provided.

Union will always include the entire drawn element. So it never clips anything.

Complement will alway exclude the entire drawn object so it always clips everything.

Exclude and XOR both exclude the clipping area and show the rest.

So really there are only two useful modes, right? 😕

oddson ·

On rethink - union and complement are useful to turn off clipping or to turn off the view on a clipped draw.

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