Viewing Transformation

The process of selecting and viewing the picture with different views is called windowing and a process which divides each element of the picture into its visible and invisible portions, allowing the invisible portion to be discarded is called clipping.

Windows and viewports A world coordinate area selected for display is called a window. An area on a display device to which a window is mapped is called a view port. The window defines what is to be viewed the view port defines where it is to be displayed.

The mapping of a part of a world coordinate scene to device coordinate is referred to as viewing transformation. The two dimensional viewing transformation is referred to as window to view port transformation of windowing transformation.

Viewing Transformation Once object description has been transmitted to the viewing reference frame, we choose the window extends in viewing coordinates and selects the viewport limits in normalized coordinates.

Object descriptions are then transferred to normalized device coordinates:

We do this thing using a transformation that maintains the same relative placement of an object in normalized space as they had in viewing coordinates.

If a coordinate position is at the center of the viewing window:

It will display at the center of the viewport.Fig shows the window to viewport mapping. A point at position (xw, yw) in window mapped into position (xv,yv) in the associated viewport.

In order to maintain the same relative placement of the point in the viewport as in the window, we require:

Solving these impressions for the viewport position (xv, yv), we have

xv=xvmin+(xw-xwmin)sx
yv=yvmin+(yw-ywmin)sy ------- (ii)

Where scaling factors are

Equation (1) and Equation (2) can also be derived with a set of transformation that converts the window or world coordinate area into the viewport or screen coordinate area.

This conversation is performed with the following sequence of transformations:

1. Perform a scaling transformation using a fixed point position (xw_min, yw_min) that scales the window area to the size of the viewport.
2. Translate the scaled window area to the position of the viewport. Relative proportions of objects are maintained if the scaling factors are the same (sx=sy).

From normalized coordinates, object descriptions are mapped to the various display devices. Any number of output devices can we open in a particular app, and three windows to viewport transformation can be performed for each open output device. This mapping called workstation transformation (It is accomplished by selecting a window area in normalized space and a viewport area in the coordinates of the display device).

As in fig, workstation transformation to partition a view so that different parts of normalized space can be displayed on various output devices).

Matrix Representation of the above three steps of Transformation:

Step1:Translate window to origin 1
	Tx=-Xwmin Ty=-Ywmin
Step2: Scaling of the window to match its size to the viewport
	Sx=(Xymax-Xvmin)/(Xwmax-Xwmin)
	Sy=(Yvmax-Yvmin)/(Ywmax-Ywmin)
Step3: Again translate viewport to its correct position on screen.
	Tx=Xvmin
	Ty=Yvmin

Above three steps can be represented in matrix form:

VT=T * S * T1

T = Translate window to the origin

S = Scaling of the window to viewport size

T₁ = Translating viewport on screen.

Advantage of Viewing Transformation:

We can display picture at device or display system according to our need and choice.

• World coordinate system is selected suits according to the application program.
• Screen coordinate system is chosen according to the need of design.
• Viewing transformation is selected as a bridge between the world and screen
  coordinate.