3D Viewing

You can click on each image to view the VRML model. For this to work you must have a VRML plugin installed. I recommend Cortona for Windows or Mac OS and FreeWRL for Linux. The CSE labs don't have a VRML browser installed yet.
The plane of projection is defined by a point on the plane (VRP), and the normal to the plane (VPN, coloured blue). We need another vector (Vup, coloured yellow) to orient the camera's coordinate system. defining plane of projection
The projection of Vup onto the plane of projection is the v vector. VPN, Vup, and v are all coplanar and perpendicular to u. camera coordinate system
View volume using a perspective projection. view volume with perspective
View volume using a parallel projection. view volume with parallel
If we enable backface cull only faces where the normal points towards us are rendered. backface culling
An easy case for depth sort. Easy depth sort
An impossible case for depth sort Impossible depth sort

Tim Lambert
Last modified: Thu Oct 6 20:32:16 EST 2005