Realtime 3-D Techniques

This document describes how to implement a realtime 3-D engine. It is quite advanced, and assumes a prior knowledge of linear algebra (vectors, matrices, etc). It covers hierarchical transformations, portals, view frustums, 3-D clipping, backface culling, etc.

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