polygons

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Editorial note

Commercially, GPU ray tracing is very rare, if for no other reason than the tooling is just not there like it is for polygons.

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Quick take

(geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of polygons gathered in one view.

noun

(geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.

noun

(geometry) The boundary of such a figure.

noun

(geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for polygons.

noun

(geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.

noun

(geometry) The boundary of such a figure.

noun

(geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.

noun

(geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.

Example sentences

Commercially, GPU ray tracing is very rare, if for no other reason than the tooling is just not there like it is for polygons.

It should be compiled to something that has access to primitives such as lines, polygons or pixels.

And then once you have the intersections, you only have to compute some internal polygons and then calculate some integrals.

Start as simple as possible - rendering a triangle on the screen with polygons (there are a million tutorials for this).

Is this a problem of the technique or just the result of the way in which lightning and polygons have been set up?

I don't find myself longing to get to an arcade to experience Gouraud-shaded polygons at 10 frames per second.

Choosing quads over polygons was also a major blunder of the Saturn's design.

And what was a wonderful intro sequence was now unskippable minutes of a slow ride past crude polygons and very low detail environments.

Access to primitives such as lines, polygons or pixels, you say?

The edges still make the whole thing look like polygons, which is a pity, since the edges should not take that much computational effort to get right.

Multiple orders of magnitude less polygons in models.

Further, the analytic geometry methods go unused in most modern solutions, which actually makes unfolding more complex, organic shapes difficult and CPU intensive as they get broken down into polygons...

Quote examples

Or you could make 1bpp "control" bitplanes that, when fed to the blitter, would fill your polygons scanline by scanline.

Right, it does not seem to be a raycasting algorithm, and the author mentions of it in the youtube comments that it's a "rasterization" meaning perspective projection of textured polygons.

Geohashed (X+Y) points in Redis is only peripherally related to actual geospatial database concerns, particularly big-data or ("NoSQL") spatial database concerns - how do you efficiently index anything other than point data (polygons, multi_polygons), or ask spatial queries (e.g., nearest neighbors) is not even close to being addressed.