Questions tagged [camera]
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Mapping a box to an inverse frustum
I have a non AA, non cubic, box living happily in 3D.
I have a frustum defined by 2 squares. one square is the square defined by [-1, 1]^2 and the other square can have any size, there is also a ...
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Trouble getting a raytracer camera representation for different aspect ratios
I am trying to make my camera representation work for images whose aspect ratio isn't 1 (640x480, 1920x1080...), but I am having some trouble getting it to work.
The camera model is pretty simple, as ...
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OpenGL - How to increase view space coordinate range in X and Y axis
I'm trying to render some objects but apparently X and Y coordinates need to be really small in-order to get something on screen. See this example of 2 lines
The world space coordinates for these ...
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Finding Camera projection matrix from known input and output
Lets say I have a rectangle with known coordinates in 3D scene, and I'm projecting it using pin point camera to the plane (screen).
You can imagine it deforms on the screen per camera transformation ...
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Understanding camera of a CPU raytracer from "Ray tracer challenge"
I am following a book "Ray tracer challenge" by Buck, but it doesn't explain anything. The code works, but I don't properly understand, why.
The code is as follows:
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Using Perspective Rendering To Render A 3D Point
I am wondering how I can use perspective rendering to render a point onto a screen. An image showing perspective rendering:
Say I have a 3d point (with x, y, and z coordinates), a point for the ...
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How to get world coordinates from a 4X4 camera matrix
I have Intel T265 camera which has a camera coordinates system like following diagram:
The camera system has two cameras and the center of the two cameras is the position of the camera system.
The ...
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How to ensure that a randomly-generated velocity vector moves the camera forward within a valid arc?
I spawn a camera in a scene using random coordinates for x and y and setting z=0 and orient ...
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How compute new camera parameters given a velocity vector?
My goal is to update camera parameters given a velocity vector so that the camera points in the direction of the velocity vector. How should one compute the update matrix for the camera parameters?
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Ray casting and rasterization 101
Recently I've became an intern in company-name and my internship task is(for now) create rasterization using rays.
I'm mostly interested in pure math, so basic ...
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How to use trackball for rotating an camera matrix in eye frame
I have a QOpenGLWidget where I use camera transformation matrix(4,4), FOV and vectors Position(4), Up(4), Forward(4). I also have an ArcBall which I can use. I managed to implement zoom and pan by ...
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Given two 3d vectors, find the rotation matrix between the two
So I am making a raytracer following the very helpful online book of Gabriel Gambetta but I stumble on the rotation matrix part.
My linear algebra background is 3Blue1Brown video series "The ...
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Magic number meaning in smallpt's camera ray calculation
In smallpt's source at line 90 the direction is multiplied by 140 and I was wondering where that number is coming from. I was hoping for it to be explained in the ...
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Does angular diameter to FoV ratio equal object's image to total image ratio?
If we have an object at certain distance D in front of a camera. The object has a horizontal diameter d, giving us an angular diameter theta (2*arctan(d/2D)) of 50 degrees (converted from radians). ...
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Does an object spanning percentage of the Camera's FoV correlate with the object's image percentage?
I am working on a virtual camera inside a game engine, which provides me with an FoV control, but no Focal length control (and no filming sensor dimensions short of aspect ratio), and I am less than a ...
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Project grid on 2d plane based on camera perspective
Unsure if this is the right network to post this, but maybe someone can help...
I'm working on a personal project where, with the help of AI, I want to automatically estimate the perspective of a ...
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What's the name of the transformation that can remove horizontal convergence from a picture?
Say that you are taking pictures from a street like this one:
As you can see, the picture is taken perpendicular to the direction of the street.
The problem is that cars at the left look as if they ...
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Sensor size of Sony HDR-HC7e
I want to motion track a shot from my Sony HDR-HC7e camcorder and I am not quite sure about the horizontal sensor size(width).
I set the focal length to minimum and the recording to HDV 16:9
This ...
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Calculate the position and rotation needed to have a camera look at a certain region
I have a 2D region defined by 4 points in 3D space. I want to position my camera so that it looks at the region, with a settable variable determining which side it looks at, where looks at means that ...
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How to keep an object constant in screen space?
If you open the modern Blender UI and select for example scaling, and then you use the scroll wheel to "zoom" (move the camera along the radial axis). You will notice that the size of the 3D
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Apply Projective Transformation 2D Rectangle
I want to write code from scratch about Projective Transformation in order to apply this transformation to 2d rectangular. I searched about this transformation, but I could not figure out completely. ...
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How to Pan Zoom a spherical camera?
I asked this in regular SO but I think people are not understanding the question so i will try here:
So, for anyone familiar with Google Maps, when you zoom, it does it around the cursor.
That is to ...
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Perspective Raytracing
Given the up and focal vector of the perspective camera, the position of the camera and the vertical and horizontal opening angle of the FOV. How can I calculate a ray for given screen space ...
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How can I reproduce the MatchMoving/MotionTracking technique from Just Dance?
I'm a software engineer student with a big projet idea but low graphic knowledge.
My goal is to compare two people dancing. One person would be the teacher with perfect moves and the other would be a ...
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Difference between a spherical camera and a trackball camera
A spherical camera is pretty easy to define.
We have an anchor point C the camera always looks at and a relative position P where the camera is, which can be expressed in spherical coordinates, ...
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Camera Implementation without Limitations
I've developed a simple (Third-Person) Perspective Camera with Orbit controls.
However, my implementation doesn't handle the case where if the pitch goes over 90º it flips upside down. From what I've ...
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Can pixels on the image plane be mapped to world space coordinates?
I'm trying to learn the fundamentals of 3d computer graphics by writing a toy framework in WebGL.
I'm currently working on mouse based camera controls. There are plenty of good resources in the ACM ...
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Camera Model View transformation in Ray Tracing
I am implementing my own simple ray tracing and I came across some sort of confusion. When defining the verticies in the world I multiply them by the modelView transformation system (the matrix ...
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Modify camera matrix so that it renders a "chunk" of the frustum
Given a perspective projection matrix. How can one from it derive a set of matrices representing "chunks" of the viewport? So that the rendered chunks can be "stiched"
to form an image "chunk times ...
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Translate an arcball camera upwards or left-right
This problem is giving me a really hard time.
I'm always looking at the origin and have a camera that moves around it in an arcball mode.
That part works beautifully:
I'm calculating the camera ...
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How to match Blenders polynomial lens distortion model with GLSL?
I'm trying to re-implement Blenders (libmv) polynomial lens distortion model using shadertoy, in order to apply the lens distortion in another application ideally by generating a STMap for that. I ...
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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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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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Why does the camera not remain child of the other camera after adding it in osg?
I am writing an OpenSceneGraph based program that uses two cameras, one to render the preview for the user and one that uses a callback to make screenshots with MRT. The exporter camera is using an ...
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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 ...
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