If you have a 2d display lets say a (100×100) pixels and you wanted to graph a 3d point(10, 10, 10). Where would it go? How would the 2d (x,y) be formed from the (x,y,z) value?

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If you have a 2d display lets say a (100×100) pixels and you wanted to graph a 3d point(10, 10, 10). Where would it go? How would the 2d (x,y) be formed from the (x,y,z) value?

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

The term you want to search for is called “orthographic projection”, and because 3D objects cannot be perfectly captured in 2D, there are many different ways of making an orthographic projection, many of them using matrix mathematics to correlate the parts from the dimension that isn’t there into combinations of the other two dimensions.