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Commit d8ea75af authored by David Gobbi's avatar David Gobbi
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Add polygon orientation to ClipClosedSurface doc

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* collection of clipping planes. It will produce a new closed surface
* by creating new polygonal faces where the input data was clipped.
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* The orientation of the polygons that form the surface is important.
* Polygons have a front face and a back face, and it's the back face that
* defines the interior or "solid" region of the closed surface. When a
* clipping plane cuts through a "solid" region, a new cut face is generated,
* but not when a clipping plane cuts through a hole or "empty" region. This
* distinction is crucial when dealing with complex surfaces. Note that if
* a simple surface has its back faces pointing outwards, then that surface
* defines a hole in a potentially infinite solid.
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* Non-manifold surfaces should not be used as input for this filter.
* The input surface should have no open edges, and must not have any
* edges that are shared by more than two faces. The vtkFeatureEdges
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