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What is a nice, neat way to get the AABB of a sphere's projection onto the screen? This is to determine simplified geometry for lights in deferred shading.

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Axis Alighned Bounding Box... So you want a box around the sphere?? – Savlon Feb 12 at 18:03
I want to know what screen space rectangle to draw that will touch all of the pixels a specified sphere would touch. – Promit Feb 12 at 19:26
Have you searched google for AABB of a sphere space projection? – Savlon Feb 12 at 19:35

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Found the correct derivation of the extents on AltDevBlogADay: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/03/01/getting-the-projected-extent-of-a-sphere-to-the-near-plane/

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