Simple Cameras

CS 381 Lecture, Dr. Lawlor

The word for 'room' in Italian is 'camera'

Here's a "camera obscura", which is just a little box (or room) with a hole in one side.  Light shines through the hole, and falls on a sheet of tracing paper to generate the image.   Note how the image in the box is flipped vertically and horizontally.
Camera obscura
Box imaged with a short exposure.
Camera obscura
Box with long exposure. 

Here's a guy that turned his whole apartment into a big camera obscura.

You can also build a mirror into the camera obscura, which flips the image vertically
public domain camera obscura image

The question for today: if a point is sitting at in 3D space at coordinates (x,y,z), what 2D point (X,Y) does it project to on the plane of a camera obscura?