question on gl

[dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe]

In article <14144 at medusa.cs.purdue.edu> avr at cs.purdue.EDU (Andrew V. Royappa) writes:
>The gl graphics user's guide says that the perspective & viewing
>transformations transforms the perspective pyramid into the box 
>-1.0 <= x,y,z <= 1.0, to facilitate clipping. Is this in fact
>the case, 
yep--this *is* the case -1.0 to 1.0 for x, y, *and* z clipping.

>           or are the box's bounds given by something else
>e.g. -1.0<=x,y<=1.0 and 0.0<=z<=1.0 ? 
nope.  this is not the case.
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