Introduction

This project aims at creating a Java Applet that will help understand the concepts of camera and perspective transforms. One of the goals of this project was create a viewing system to study the 3D pipeline - a term used in describing the various processes in converting the 3D world coordinate space to 2D representation. This project provides a comprehensive study of the viewing sytem, in particular the

View Transformation
View Volume
Perspective Transformation
Clipping
Inverse Camera Transforms.

Another goal of this project was to acquire knowledge of Java. Java is a general-purpose programming environment which is

Simple
Robust
Object-oriented
Platform-independent
Multi-threaded
Dynamic.

It's best for creating applets and applications for the Internet, intranets and any other complex, distributed network.

By creating a Java Applet, the user has the flexibility of real-time manipulation of the viewing system.