Questions tagged [camera]
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Understanding of Camera Up Vector
Assume eye position e, gaze direction g, view-up vector t, right-handed base. As the graphs shows:
$w=-\frac{g}{||g||}$
$u=\frac{t\times w}{||t\times w||}$
$v=w\times u$
I am really confused ...
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Compute emitted importance of a pinhole camera
In section 16.1.1 of Physically Based Rendering the authors describe how we can check, if a given ray $r$ corresponds to one starting from the film area.
They implement this check such that it works ...
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Equation for camera projection
I am trying to find an equation for a camera projection.
The goal is to map the point $P(P_x, P_y, P_z)$ from the world coordinates onto the window coordinates $Q(Q_x, Q_y)$.
The eye of viewing is ...
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Deriving blur from real optical formulae
Looking at the Wikipedia page for Circle of Confusion, and at such posts as this one, I completely understand how to calculate the values for near, far, focal planes and hyperfocal distance. I am also ...
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Computing a lookAt matrix by passing a vec3 to a camera object
I am following this tutorial on how to implement a first person camera. So far I was able to implement the entire (C++) class in TypeScript and it works as it is supposed to.
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What I was not ...
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Move a camera (orbiting camera) togheter with the Earth around the Sun
I modeled, Phong shaded and animated 2 spheres in a simple way to approximate in a naif way the solar system (with Earth and Sun alone). There is the Sun at the center and the Earth that goes around ...
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Correctness or otherwise of the procedure for generating an orbiting camera in WebGl
I have to create a orbiting camera. I created the model of sun (a sphere) around (0,0,0) , triangulated and Phong shaded it. I would have a camera that goes around the sun thus an orbiting camera and ...
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How to rotate a camera?
So I am doing a simple FPS camera with openGL. I store the camera as 4 vector, a position vector, a lookAt vector, an up vector and a right vector. When the user presses a key, I create a rotation ...
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Creating depth map from a 2-D image?
My question is oriented towards the generation of depth map using any of the state of the art depth sensor.
However, each of these method required the presence of an 3-D object in front of the sensor....
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How does cell phone display image or video even before you start to capture?
When a cell phone is used to take a photo or capture video the display continuously displays what a camera can see, does that mean the ccd/cmos device is exposed to light continuously? or is it ...
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How to calculate camera distance so that after projective transformation a quad is filling the whole screen
First of all, I'm using OpenGL and GLM.
Now, I have a square perpendicular to the z-axis and centered around it. Let's say that it has Z-value (offset along the Z-axis) X. Now, I want to set up a ...
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Please, help me to understand why my raytracing camera rotates in wrong directions?
I'm trying to build a raytracer and I use this article on how to build camera system. The problem is that when, after calculating ray direction in camera space, I multiply it by camera-to-world ...
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How to get camera Right vector when Front vector and WorldUp vector are collinear
Get the title problem when implementing a walkthrough camera.
I use normlize(cross(WorldUp, Front)) to get Right vector. And when they are collinear, I get a zero vector.
Is there any more robust ...
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Render with camera perspective off-center
So ordinarily we have this
But I'm after this!
Is it possible to do this? Ideally by changing the projection matrix?
The reasoning is kinda interesting - I am developing for mobile VR, and I have ...
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Calculate Camera parameters and HandEyeCalibration
I'm trying to calculate camera paramters and a hand eye calibration (Transformation from camera to eye (display) coordinates) for rendering on a see-through HMD.
I have already calculated a ...
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Understanding camera() settings in Processing
I have trouble understanding the way a camera is set in Processing (according to the reference this shoudn't be very different from OpenGl). For starters, when I set the eye position of the camera I ...
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With OpenGL, is it correct to apply model transformation to rotate the camera?
Having taken a basic CG course, I remember that transformations are relative, so rotating the camera is identical to rotating the view in the opposite direction. Right now I want to implement camera ...
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Depth of Field in Path Tracing: What do I do with the secondary ray?
How can I implement Depth of Field in my Path Tracer? I have read this article which explains the theory behind everything & I already have a good understanding of what this effect needs to ...
