spacecut

English

Etymology

From space +‎ cut.

Noun

spacecut (plural spacecuts)

1. (computer graphics, demoscene) An animated visual effect in which one polyhedron intersects another, forming an empty space where their volumes overlap.
   • 1993, Keith Lau, “More help needed! Spacecuts, etc ...”, in comp.graphics (Usenet):

     Also, since part of a polygon (facet) of one object might be obscured by that of another intersecting object, I would assume that the standard Z-sort alogrithms^[sic] would not be enough. Does this mean that I would have to use Z-buffering, or tessellate (sp?) the resultant (possibly nonconvex) polygon into triangles and draw them in Z-order? If not, what is a fast way of doing spacecuts?

   • 1995, dro...@vnet.ibm.com, “Demo review - Killing time by oxyron”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

     Effect 6: Gouraud spacecut - Probably the worst effect in the demo - has been done miles better before!