Questions tagged [transformations]
Transformations are mathematical operations that can be applied to an object to change its scale, position and orientation.
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Targeting the enemy turret towards Player object [closed]
I am trying to turn the enemy turret towards player object using Armory 3d game engine with Blender. Script is written using haxe.
I am using the following code with both the player object and enemy ...
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Help me understand the derivation of this tangent space to object space matrix
I was trying to follow this http://foundationsofgameenginedev.com/FGED2-sample.pdf
But had problem understanding formula 7.33.
$$p_i-p_j=(u_i-u_j)\mathrm{t}+(v_i-v_j)\mathrm{b}$$
* $p_i,p_j$ being ...
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3D Bouncing Cube
I'm trying to write a little program with a bouncing cube but I can't find the right x, y, z and angle for it. I have these lines:
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Model View Projection Matrix Multiplcation Order
I'm working on a simple software renderer and have a working implementation so far. I'm curious as to why it's actually working since I would expect the multiplication ordering for my world, view and ...
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Matrix transforming with translation/rotation/scale at center of screen
I'm trying to create a camera using matrix transforms, the gist as follows:
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THREEjs: updating an object's matrix doesnt change it's position and rotation params
I want to set a transformation matrix to an object upon creation and then control it by position, rotation and scale, but while changing the matrix does change the object in world space, it's position ...
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How to “preserve texture” when transforming vertices
Maya has a feature called preserve texture. It allows you to transform vertices of an object and basically have the texture "stay in place" in object space. Say I have a plane with unwrapped ...
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Could the Tetradic color pattern be expanded to allow /dev/random be “pretty” for cryptographic key purposes?
Is there a way to take a random value (or set of values), and cause them to create a "pretty" pattern (as a thumbprint), and that array of thumbprints might have a rendering mask on just for ...
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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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Interpolate vertex attributes with $z$ AFTER homogeneous divide
Usually, if we want to interpolate some vertex attributes, say $A_1$, $A_2$ and $A_3$, we have to first divide them by their corresponding $z$ in view space, then we interpolate them using barycentric ...
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Transformations and change of basis in CG
Sometimes in CG literature a transformation is equated to a coordinate system change. This is fine as long as the transformation includes only a rotation and a translation. When scaling is involved, ...
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Why does my self-written rendering engine make further away objects look larger?
I am writing a very simple rendering engine. I have already made a few tests, but somehow the images it creates look wrong. Objects that are further away from the camera look larger than objects ...
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Converting Vertex and Index buffers to a File Format
I have many sets of vertex and index buffers that I’d like to render on to the screen. Ideally each model in different locations with-in world space. I’m actually doing a statistical study on spatial ...
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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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How to transform x-y-z red-green-blue arrows and draw them on 2D screen?
I'm making a raytracer and want to print debug arrows
Blender example:
Old version of 3d max:
How do I do the same having camera forward, up and right vector?
I think I need some kind of matrix ...
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Consistent Video Depth Estimation from Monocular Lens to approximate LiDAR?
If the iPhone had LiDAR sensors, it would be possible to generate a 3D point cloud that you could theoretically use to furnish a 3D AR reconstruction of your surroundings. E.g. you could create an AR ...
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Does rotating object inside unit cube [-1,1] by homogenous matrix move it outside unit cube
I am just trying to rotate my pointcloud object which is inside the unit cube ([-1,1] in all x,y,z axis). What I did is use the basic rotation matrix from wiki and extend it to homogenuous 4x4 matrix (...
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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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Rotation around local axis
I am trying to understand rotation and I come across the scenario of rotation with respect to the object itself.
One strategy that makes sense to me is that I would translate and rotate one of the ...
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What kind of transformation when the aspect is changed for a rotated shape?
I have a geometric shape (assuming that is a rectangle). I want to rotate it about it geometric center by an angle of 45° and plot the result using matplotlib with an equal aspect ratio, I get ...
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Estimate 3D cube pose after camera rotation
I have some photos of 3D cube. I also know the 3D pose of the cube in each photo (yaw, pitch, roll).
I want to estimate the new pose (yaw, pitch, roll) of the cube after performing 2D rotation to the ...
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Transformation for aligning 3D object with reference frame of 3D turtle graphics
The problem
I'm using a 3D extension of the well-known "Turtle graphics" to draw plants. My system works by maintaining a position $\vec{p}$ and three vectors:
The heading $\vec{H}$
The "up" ...
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Apply transformation to single vertices in OpenGL in order to deform mesh
I'm making a 2D cell simulation game.
The mesh for my cell is basically just a manually-generated triangle fan that looks like this.
I would like to reproduce the wobbling/vibration effect on the ...
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Visualize the interpolated unit quaternion on the surface of the unit sphere
My major is mechanical, please forgive me for asking questions that may seem trivial to you.
First, I'm reading the following paper:
Dam, Erik B., Martin Koch, and Martin Lillholm. Quaternions, ...
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Compute Speed of Spheres in 3D animation
I have created two animations:
One where a "camera" moves towards the spheres creating an optic flow (1st GIF).The code can be found here.
One where spheres move randomly in a 3D coordinates space (...
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What quad will fill the screen, which can be inverse-projection-view transformed to map to the near frustum plane?
I've been experimenting with raytracing using GLSL. I had success rendering a cube which encloses the object.
Now I want to do a full-screen raytrace, and I want to construct a quad which covers the ...
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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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Help with understanding the look-at function (the view matrix)
I've been reading this article about the look-at function. I don't understand the part when they're trying to inverse the matrix N.
They say that R is orthogonal because all its row and column ...
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Use glTranslatef and shaders?
In newer OpenGL it's encouraged to use shaders and pass the model-view-projection as parameters. But what if I drew a complex object, and wanted to translate/rotate it and draw many copies?
For ...
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How can i wrap the earth image around a 3D Sphere using OpenGL, GLFW, GLAD, GLM?
Please help me out with this thing and currently i am a little more than a beginner so please tell me in that context. i don't need any obsolete methods for creating this like using GLUT or GLEW.can ...
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Moving a sphere in a basic ray tracer
I have written a really basic ray tracer. It generates primary rays and sets the colour of the pixel to the colour of the object that I have set myself. The code for which can be seen below.
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How to find matrix that projects 3d points into 2d plane centered in the origin?
I have a list of 3D points defined by Cartesian coordinates, i.e. [(x1,y1,z1), (x2,y2,z2), ..., (xn,yn,zn)]. I want to project them to a 2D plane which has origin in the center (0,0,0) but which is ...
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What are affine covariant regions
I am trying to understand this seminal paper. I read this post on what affine transformations and my understanding is that affine transformations are transformations that preserve parallelism of lines ...
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Inflate 3D mesh into sphere
I am after a simple (not necessarily efficient) algorithm to "continuously" transform a closed surface mesh into a sphere.
It seems that Blender is able to do this quite well: https://docs.blender....
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What is the difference between world coordinate, viewing coordinate and device coordinate in computer graphics?
The 2D pipeline involves with the construction of world coordinate scene followed by converting world coordinate to viewing coordinate, then transforming viewing coordinate to normalized coordinate ...
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How to calculate interpolation between multiple skeleton poses?
I found out that I should use spherical linear interpolation to blend two poses of a joint. I cannot find what to do if I have hundreds of poses to blend except applying the SLERP iteratively.
What ...
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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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How to scale primitive shapes [in Blender] so that they are within a [unit] sphere?
I wonder how is it possible to scale all shapes so that they are within boundaries of a [unit] sphere? I know how to do this for a cube: if radius of the sphere is S...
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Ray tracing the next week: understanding Instances
My question is not about the code, but it's about the approach used by the author Peter Shirley (and apparently common practice in ray tracers) of handling Instances. To understand the question it's ...
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transformation from cartesian coordinates to spherical coordinates without calculations
Given this graph in the 3d cartesian coordinates i should figure out the spherical coordinates representation but without the use of calculations .
I've been trying to solve this the whole day but i ...
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Using transformations to get from A to B image
I try to solve this,
First, I used scaling: $Scale(S_x,S_y)=S(\sqrt 5,\sqrt 5)$
So, I enlarge the bottom of the house and the sides, to the same size of B image.
Later, I used rotation: $R(\theta)=...
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Define position and orientation in a local coordinate system
Suppose we have a world coordinate system W and a 3D model m1 defined in W. ...
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How to convert from Object space into World space (exercise from 3D Math Primer book)
This is not homework. I'm self studying Computer Graphics, using the book "3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development" (2nd edition). So there is the exercise 6 in chapter 3 which I can't figure ...
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My 2D translation matrix causes the box to be off screen when it shouldnt be
Now I know this isn't the way this is normally done so please bear with me. I am doing this this way so I know I have a solid conceptual understanding of everything that goes beyond example code.
I ...
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Transforming arcs and perspective change
I have a SVG with group of independent arcs that move around common origin.
On user event those arcs can change both their radii and start/end angles.
On other user event the user can change view from ...
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Bump mapping with triangles and height maps
I'm trying to add bump mapping to my ray tracer, and I'm currently struggling to add bump mapping to it, as I don't seem to get the transformations from texture space to world space correctly.
I have ...
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Need help with change of basis (world to camera frame)
I'm reading up on coordinate systems and geometric transformations but the change of basis topic still confuses me. I found this exercise but, honestly, I wouldn't know how to begin:
Given a world ...
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Composition of decomposed transformations
Say I have a scene graph, and each node has a scale, rotation, and translation. Can I combine these into a single scale, rotation, and translation?
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Rotate a model or a view with mouse input to produce intuitive results
I am writing 3D graphics software in Java using the LibGDX framework (which is a front-end for OpenGL), and am baffled by a transformation problem. How do I rotate the orientation of the camera or ...
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preserving z-values during projection?
Consider this figure for projection.
There are two equations that give value for the xp and yp coordinates:
$x_p=x.\frac{(z_{vp}-z_{prp})}{h}+ x_{prp}.\frac{(z-z_{vp})}{h}$ and
$y_p=y.\frac{(z_{vp}...
