Pipeline architecture for clipping straight line segments

Abstract EN

Sometimes, in computer graphics, there is a need to show a part or a piece of a specific picture to study it accurately.

For this purpose a window can be used to select the interested part of the picture for display out of other parts.

This window is called a clipping window and this process is called a clipping process.

On the other hand, clipping is required when a part of a moving image becomes out of the visible zone for display.

So the clipping process is one of the important issues in the field of computer graphic especially for real time applications.

Therefore a study of the line clipping with respect to a rectangular window while looking to various methods to achieve clipping process in the image space is presented in this paper.

In addition to that, performance measurements are conducted and compared.

The paper develops a method to perform clipping in the object space in which the line segment is clipped against a viewing volume.

Finally, pipelining is adopted to realize clipping algorithm in hardware.