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Clipping Plane
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Clipping Plane (Real Time 3D) 
A clipping plane throws away polygons on the other side of it. This can dramatically speed up the rendering of a polygonal scene, since unneeded polygons can take up valuable processing power. See also backface culling, frustum, hidden surface removal.
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