Viewing I: the wonders of perspective

Viewing I: the wonders of perspective

CS 248 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
Autumn Quarter, 2006
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Tuesday, October 31

Table of contents:

Taxonomy of planar geometric projections
- The invention of perspective (separate web page)
- The taxonomy
- Center of projection
- Orthographic views
- Oblique views
- Perspective views

I am not holding you responsible for those nodes of the taxonomy below orthographic or oblique.

Press here for the problems on the use of perspective in art that I posed at the end of class today.
Click here for the distorted perspective that accompanies the third problem. (From Dubery and Willets, Perpective and other drawing systems.)

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