Transformations and Projections in Computer Graphics

• Main Author: Salomon, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Computer-aided engineering.; Multimedia systems.; Mathematics.; Visualization.; Computer Science.; Computer Graphics.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Media Design.

Transformations and projections are used extensively in Computer Graphics, a field which is now a part of everyone’s lives via feature films, advertisements in the media, the screens of PDAs, mobile phones, and other vehicles and outlets. Transformations and Projections in Computer Graphics provides...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Transformations
• Introduction
• Two-Dimensional Transformations
• Three-Dimensional Coordinate Systems
• Three-Dimensional Transformations
• Transforming the Coordinate System
• Parallel Projections
• Orthographic Projections
• Axonometric Projections
• Oblique Projections
• Perspective Projection
• One Two Three... Infinity
• History of Perspective
• Perspective in Curved Objects
• The Mathematics of Perspective
• General Perspective
• Transforming The Object
• Viewer At An Arbitrary Location
• Coordinate-Free Approach
• The Viewing Volume
• Stereoscopic Images
• Creating a Stereoscopic Image
• Viewing a Stereoscopic Image
• Nonlinear Projections
• False Perspective.-Fisheye Projection.-Circle Inversion
• Panoramic Projections
• Cylindrical Panoramic Projection
• Spherical Panoramic Projection
• Cubic Panoramic Projection
• Six-Point Perspective
• Other Panoramic Projections
• Panoramic Cameras
• Telescopic Projection
• Microscopic Projection
• Anamorphosis
• Map Projections.