bruceh@brushwud.asd.sgi.com (Bruce R. Holloway) (06/12/90)
In article <9006091746.AA11156@cs2.cs.wsu.edu>, dfrank@CS2.CS.WSU.EDU ("Duane D. Frank") writes: > > I'm new to this list, and perhaps this has been discussed before, but in > any event I have a question about some clipping problems I have encountered. > Currently, we have a three year old 4D-60T (thought I believe it was > updated to a 4D-70) and on this particular machine, it does not have the > capability to clip shaded polygons when using lighting models and so > forth. A page from the users manual mentions this problem. > ... > My question is this: On any of the newer or more powerful machines has > this problem been corrected? I had heard that this problem had been > fixed on the Personal Iris, but I have not had an opportunity to test > this. To my knowledge, this problem only occurs on the 4D/50,60,70 machines with the original graphics subsystem that came with the 4D series. Systems with PI, GT, & VGX graphics interpolate colors when clipping. Regards, bruceh