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Jim Blinn's Corner: Notation, Notation, Notation
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Jim Blinn's Corner: Notation, Notation, Notation

by Jim Blinn
July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 40m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter Thirteen

Inferring Transforms

May-June 1999

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In simple 2D texture mapping, you take a 2D image and render it on the screen after some transformation or distortion. To accomplish this, you will need to take each [X, Y] location on the screen and calculate a [U, V] texture coordinate to place there. A particularly common transformation is

U=aX+bY+cgX+hY+j,V=dX+eY+fgX+hY+j

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By picking the proper values for the coefficients aj, we can fly the 2D texture around to an arbitrary position, orientation, and perspective projection on the screen. One can, ...

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