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Re: 2.5 vs 3 D
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Guy Cox <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:20:33 +1000
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>    I do not know the difference between 2.5 and 3 D (granted is not only 0.5 D
>Splitting Dimensions??)


I'm not sure what sense various people contributing to this discussion have
been using, but the commonly accepted definition is that 2.5 D refers to
a 2D surface curved in some more or less complex way in the third dimension,
whereas 3D refers to objects with actual extent - features behind other
features - in all 3 dimensions.

                                        Guy Cox

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