frustrum culling plane

[Blinn78] describes how clipping can be done in 4D homogeneous space (Figure 5.29). After the perspective divide, points inside the view frustum are in normalized device coordinates and bounded as follows:

That is, the points are bounded by the simple 4D planes: 

Left: w = −x

Right: w = x 

Bottom: w = −y 

Top: w = y 

Near: z = 0 Far:

 z = w Once we know the frustum plane equations in homogeneous space, we can apply a clipping algorithm (such as Sutherland-Hodgeman). Note that the mathematics of the segment/plane intersection test generalizes to , so we can do the test with 4D points and the 4D planes in homogeneous clip space.