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by calcnerd256 5934 days ago
They could just be being glib. Clipping and LOD aren't the same thing as one another. Consider the 2-D case of sampling a line (uncountably many points) for a raster display. Reimagining our favorite line drawing algorithms as search problems requires a lot of work to figure out how to best search the space. I hope these guys are doing something like that.