Perspective viewing and clipping (part I)

CS 248 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
Spring Quarter, 1995
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Tuesday, May 16

Table of contents:

• Taxonomy of planar geometric projections
  • Center of projection
  • The taxonomy
  • Orthographic views
  • Oblique views
  • Perspective views
• Specifying a perspective view
  • The viewing frustum
  • Project #3 specification method
  • SGI specficiation method
  • Comparison of formulations

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