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The rasterised image may then be displayed on a computer display, video display or printer, or stored in a bitmap file format.

Near clipping Beyond projection of vertices " 2D clipping, near clipping is required to correctly rasterise 3D primitives; this is because vertices may have been projected behind the eye.

projection of vertices " 2D clipping, near clipping is required to correctly rasterise 3D primitives; this is because vertices may have been projected behind.

The rasterised image may then be displayed on a computer display, video display or printer.

The advantage was the ability to rasterise using cheap integer calculations on a CPU without hardware acceleration.