Camera

Camera

For rendering an image we need to set up a camera for the rendering

Perspective Camera (type="perspective")

Description

The perspective camera is the idealized model of the pinhole camera.

Properties

Parameter	Type	Description
toWorld	transform	Matrix defining the to world transformation.OpenGL lookAt is also supported
fov	float	flied of view in degrees [0, 180]
width	integer	Number of pixels in the width
height	integer	Number of pixels in the height

Code example

<camera type="perspective">
	<transform name="toWorld">
		<lookat origin="20, 20, 50" 
			target="0, 4, 0"
			up="0, 1, 0"/>
	</transform>
	<float name="fov" value="39.3077"/>
	<integer name="width" value="768"/>
	<integer name="height" value="432"/>
</camera>

ToDo

Add maybe more realistic camera modeles