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Orthographic and Perspective Projection—Part 1 Drawing As I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S From 3D to 2D: Orthographic and Perspective Projection—Part 1 •History • Geometrical Constructions 3D Viewing I • Types of Projection • Projection in Computer Graphics Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 1/38 I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S Drawing as Projection Early Examples of Projection • Plan view (orthographic projection) from Mesopotamia, 2150 BC: earliest known technical • Painting based on mythical tale as told by Pliny the drawing in existence Elder: Corinthian man traces shadow of departing lover Carlbom Fig. 1-1 • Greek vases from late 6th century BC show perspective(!) detail from The Invention of Drawing, 1830: Karl Friedrich • Roman architect Vitruvius published specifications of plan / elevation drawings, perspective. Illustrations Schinkle (Mitchell p.1) for these writings have been lost Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 2/38 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 3/38 1 I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S Most Striking Features of Linear Early Perspective Perspective • Ways of invoking three dimensional space: shading • || lines converge (in 1, 2, or 3 axes) to vanishing point suggests rounded, volumetric forms; converging lines suggest spatial depth of room • Objects farther away are more foreshortened (i.e., smaller) than closer ones • Not systematic—lines do not converge to single vanishing point • Example: perspective cube edges same size, with farther ones smaller parallel edges converging Giotto, Franciscan Rule Approved, Assisi, Upper Basilica, c.1295-1300 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 4/38 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 5/38 I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S Setting for “Invention” of Brunelleschi and Vermeer Perspective Projection • Brunelleschi invented systematic method of • The Renaissance: new emphasis on importance of determining perspective projections (early 1400’s). individual viewpoint and world interpretation, power Evidence that he created demonstration panels, with of observation—particularly of nature (astronomy, specific viewing constraints for complete accuracy of anatomy, botany, etc.) reproduction. Note the perspective is accurate only from one POV (see Last Supper) – Massaccio – Donatello • Vermeer created perspective boxes where picture, when viewed through viewing hole, had correct – Leonardo perspective –Newton • Vermeer on the web: • Universe as clockwork: intellectual rebuilding of universe along mechanical lines – http://www.grand-illusions.com/vermeer/vermeer1.htm – http://essentialvermeer.20m.com/ – http://brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html Ender, Tycho Brahe and Rudolph II in Prague (detail of clockwork), c. 1855 url: http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/tycho/catfm.htm?image10a Vermeer, The Music Lesson, c.1662-1665 (left) and reconstruction (center) Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 6/38 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 7/38 2 I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S Hockney and Stork Alberti • An artist named David Hockney proposed that many • Published first treatise on perspective, Della Pittura, Renaissance artists, including Vermeer, might have been in 1435 aided by camera obscura while painting their masterpieces, • “A painting [the projection plane] is the intersection raising a big controversy of a visual pyramid [view volume] at a given distance, with a fixed center [center of projection] and a defined position of light, represented by art with lines and colors on a given surface [the rendering].” (Leono Battista Alberti (1404-1472), On Painting, pp. 32-33) • David Stork, a Stanford optics expert, refuted Hockney’s claim in the heated 2001 debate about the subject among artists, museum curators and scientists. He also wrote the article “Optics and Realism in Renaissance Art”, using scientific techniques to disprove Hockney’s theory Hockney, D. (2001) Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters. New York: Viking Studio. Stork, D. (2004) Optics and Realism in Renaissance Art. Scientific American 12, 52-59. Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 8/38 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 9/38 I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S The Visual Pyramid and Similar Dürer Triangles • Concept of similar triangles described both • Projected image is easy to calculate based on geometrically and mechanically in widely read treatise by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) – height of object (AB) – distance from eye to object (CB) – distance from eye to picture (projection) plane (CD) – and using relationship CB: CD as AB: ED picture plane object projected object CB : CD as AB : ED Albrecht Dürer, Artist Drawing a Lute Woodcut from Dürer’s work about the Art of Measurement. • AB is component of A’ in the plane of projection ‘Underweysung der messung’, Nurenberg, 1525 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 10/38 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 11/38 3 I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Robert Campin Velàzquez The Annunciation Triptych • Point of view influences content and meaning of what is seen (ca. 1425) • Are royal couple in mirror about to enter room? Or is their image a reflection of painting on far left? • Analysis through computer reconstruction of the painted space – verdict: royal couple in mirror is reflection from canvas in foreground, not reflection of actual people (Kemp pp. 105-108) Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 12/38 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 13/38 I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S Piero della Francesca Leonardo da Vinci The Resurrection (1460) The Last Supper (1495) • Perspective can be used in unnatural ways to control perception • Perspective plays very large role in this painting • Use of two viewpoints concentrates viewer’s attention alternately on Christ and sarcophagus Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 14/38 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 15/38 4 I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S Geometrical Construction of Planar Geometric Projection Projections • Projectors are straight lines • Projection surface is plane (picture plane, projection plane) projectors eye, or Center of Projection (COP) projectors picture plane from Vredeman de Vries’s Perspective, Kemp p.117 • This drawing itself is perspective projection • 2 point perspective—two vanishing points • What other types of projections do you know? – hint: maps Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 16/38 Andries van Dam September 15, 2005 3D Viewing I 17/38 I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S I N T R O D U C T I O N T O C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S Main Classes of Planar Types of Projection Geometrical Projections a) Perspective: determined by Center of Projection (COP) (in our diagrams, the “eye”) b) Parallel: determined by Direction of Projection (DOP) (projectors are parallel—do not converge to “eye” or COP).
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