Viewports, Clipping, and Projections Flashcards

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Truncated Viewing Frustrum

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The truncated pyramid in world space that contains all the parts of the scene which will appear in the final perspective rendering.

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6 Properties of Projective Transformations

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  • Angles are not preserved
  • Distances not preserved
  • Ratios of distances not preserved
  • Affine combinations not preserved
    + straight lines are mapped to straight lines
    + cross ratios are preserved
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Cross Ratio

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On a line with four points the distances between any two points have the same ratios after a projective transformation

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