[x3d-public] X3D Stencil Buffer defined?

Leonard Daly Leonard.Daly at realism.com
Mon Mar 27 15:53:07 PDT 2017


On 3/27/2017 3:36 PM, Mitchell Williams wrote:
>
> RE: “I have no idea what a Stencil Buffer is or would do. I have not 
> seen anything by this name. What does this do and where/why/when would 
> it be used?”
>
> That was exactly my reaction when it came up in a GearVR meeting.
>
> There is a Stencil interface, operation and function in my handy WebGL 
> 2 Quick Reference.  So, something exists.
>
> I think it is just a mask to say “render these pixels but not in the 
> areas it is masked out”.
>

So you think it is like a "mask" in Photoshop that restricts which 
pixels (or perhaps vertices) will be processed?


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*Leonard Daly*
3D Systems & Cloud Consultant
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chair
President, Daly Realism - /Creating the Future/
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