Guard-band Clipping

Guard-band Clipping

Guard band clipping is a technique used by digital rendering hardware and software designed to significantly reduce time and bandwidth required to render an image by rejecting parts of the world geometry that fall outside the guard band. Guard band clipping is supported by current versions of DirectX and is being used by most modern video games and 3D applications.

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