   How is the plane represented in this example?
  I define my planes in my game by two vectors, one for the position of an arbitrary point on the plane, and one normalized vector for the normal. Now I'm trying to implement view frustum culling, and I found this code for retrieving the view frustum planes, but apparently this code uses some other way of representing a plane than the one I use - here there seems to be 4 floats to define a plane. What format is the plane represented in here? How can I convert from this representation to my own representation (aribtrary point and normal)?Matrix viewProjection = m_view * m_projection; // Left plane m_frustum[0].A = viewProjection.M14 + viewProjection.M11; m_frustum[0].B = viewProjection.M24 + viewProjection.M21; m_frustum[0].C = viewProjection.M34 + viewProjection.M31; m_frustum[0].D = viewProjection.M44 + viewProjection.M41; // Right plane m_frustum[1].A = viewProjection.M14 - viewProjection.M11;   m_frustum[1].B = viewProjection.M24 - viewProjection.M21; m_frustum[1].C = viewProjection.M34 - viewProjection.M31; m_frustum[1].D = viewProjection.M44 - viewProjection.M41; // Top plane m_frustum[2].A = viewProjection.M14 - viewProjection.M12;   m_frustum[2].B = viewProjection.M24 - viewProjection.M22; m_frustum[2].C = viewProjection.M34 - viewProjection.M32; m_frustum[2].D = viewProjection.M44 - viewProjection.M42; // Bottom plane m_frustum[3].A = viewProjection.M14 + viewProjection.M12;   m_frustum[3].B = viewProjection.M24 + viewProjection.M22; m_frustum[3].C = viewProjection.M34 + viewProjection.M32; m_frustum[3].D = viewProjection.M44 + viewProjection.M42; // Near plane m_frustum[4].A = viewProjection.M13;   m_frustum[4].B = viewProjection.M23; m_frustum[4].C = viewProjection.M33; m_frustum[4].D = viewProjection.M43; // Far plane m_frustum[5].A = viewProjection.M14 - viewProjection.M13;   m_frustum[5].B = viewProjection.M24 - viewProjection.M23; m_frustum[5].C = viewProjection.M34 - viewProjection.M33; m_frustum[5].D = viewProjection.M44 - viewProjection.M43; // Normalize planes for ( int i = 0; i < 6; i++ ) { m_frustum = Plane.Normalize( m_frustum ); }
  It's a representation of normal vector (A,B,C) and a distance of closest point on a plane to (0,0,0) D.In your representation, your distance vector (aka arbitrary point) is (A,B,C)*DTo compute D from your representation, use gramm-shmidt to substract normal component from your offset vector, to get closest point on the plane (closest to (0,0,0)) and take its length.Cheers.~defEDIT: found this old paper: plane extraction for dummies.. ekhm, programmers.planeExtraction.pdf;  Why are you representing your plane by a point and a normal? Thats totaly unusefull in any situation i can think off. Normaly you are representin a plane by its normal 'vec3 norm;' and distance from origin 'float d;' where 'd' is where the plane intercepts a line going from the origin in the direction of the normal (plane = normal, -dot(point, normal)), you can find tons of information on the net about that. So basicaly you have a 'vec4 plane' where components x, y, z define the normal and component 'w' defines the 'd' parameter.The '-dot(point, normal)' is so that the value 'd' is represented as negative wich makes it convinient to classify points to the plane by computing a 'plane dot product' like this: dot(plane, point) = plane.x * point.x + plane.y * point.y + plane.x * point.x + plane.w;Where a result of '0' meens that the point is inside the plane,In your case to convert from 'vec3 point, norm;' to 'vec4 plane;' you do:  vec4 plane(norm.x, norm.y, norm.z, -dot(point, norm));and in the oposite direction:  vec3 norm(plane.x, plane.y, plane.z);  vec3 point(norm * -plane.w);   ;Quote:Original post by smurfkillerWhy are you representing your plane by a point and a normal?I'm starting to ask myself that question too now :)   