Animations

Some simple animations showing perspective distortion and ways to correct it:

Shallow Scenes

Distortion can be corrected by moving the camera away from the scene. Note that the camera for non-distorted image moves mostly outside the room.

90 degree field of view.
Note the change in the shape of the TV.
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Camera motion, 90 degree field of view. 527 KB MPEG
Changing the field of view from 90 to 4 degrees. 608 KB MPEG
Camera motion for changing the field of view. 617 KB MPEG
36 degree field of view. 650 KB MPEG
Camera motion, 36 degree field of view. 606 KB MPEG

Deep Scenes

Moving the camera does not help: the appearance of the scene changes too much (first two clip pairs.) In this case, our transformation may produces better results.

Changing the field of view from 90 to 60 degrees;
keeping the pyramids in the field of view.
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Camera motion for changing the field of view. 617 KB MPEG
Changing the field of view from 90 to 60 degrees;
preserving the projection of the middle of the scene.
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Camera motion for changing the field of view. 617 KB MPEG
Linear perspective, 90 degree field of view;
note the distortion of the figures as the camera moves.
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Transformed image, 90 degree field of view. 971 KB MPEG
Camera motion for 90 degree field of view. 617 KB MPEG