Frontfacing / Backfacing

• A polygon has two sides, of course.

• It’s customary in CG to use the right hand rule to pick one side to call the front face.

• Counterclockwise = front, clockwise = back

• This is important for:

  • lighting
  • backface culling
  • For the triangle ABC below, the front face is up.

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