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One Byte Explainer: Homogenous coordinates

Published at
6/14/2024
Categories
devchallenge
cschallenge
computerscience
beginners
Author
Eckehard
One Byte Explainer: Homogenous coordinates

This is a submission for DEV Computer Science Challenge v24.06.12: One Byte Explainer.

Explainer

To display a 3D scene on a 2D screen, each point needs to be projected. This can include multiple steps. Homogenous coordinates, introduced by A.F. Möbius in 1827, provide a way to combine the whole transformation pipeline into a single matrix operation.

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