The document discusses the 2D viewing pipeline. It describes how a 3D world coordinate scene is constructed and then transformed through a series of steps to 2D device coordinates that can be displayed. These steps include converting to viewing coordinates using a window-to-viewport transformation, then mapping to normalized and finally device coordinates. It also covers techniques for clipping objects and lines that fall outside the viewing window including Cohen-Sutherland line clipping and Sutherland-Hodgeman polygon clipping.