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Carmack's Reverse

Carmack's Reverse is a computer graphics technique generally credited to John Carmack. It is a technique for Stencil Shadow Volumes[?] that solves the problem of when the viewer's "eye" enters the shadow volume.

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Explanation on GameDev.net (http://www.gamedev.net/columns/hardcore/shadowvolume/page2.asp)
Google Search of Carmack's Reverse (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Carmack%27s+reverse)

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