Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!m2c!applix!scott
From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: 3d Graphics
Message-ID: <862@applix.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 88 18:25:32 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <16400001@ugun21> josef@ugun21.UUCP writes:
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>Subject: How does one do 3D to 2D transformations ie (x,y,z) -> screen (x,y).
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>I know that
>> "most everyone knows all about all this..."
>but I DON'T, and I would be interested as well ...

You can get a good introduction to this topic as well as some functioning
Pascal code with hidden-line handling in the March and April 1981 issues of
BYTE mag.  Look for the 2-part article "Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics"
by Franklin Crow.  All you need to know to get started...

-scott