\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{racheleva} \pdfinfo{ /Title (computer-graphics-2.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (racheleva) /Subject (Computer Graphics 2 Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{14A35B} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F0F9F4} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{Computer Graphics 2 Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{racheleva} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/217931/cs/48016/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}racheleva \\ \uline{cheatography.com/racheleva} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\ Updated 27th April, 2026.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{UNIT 2}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{PART A} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{homogeneous coordinates}} - represent all transformations as a uniform matrix multiplication; easy composition} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{viewing pipeline}} - mapping world coordinate system to viewport (display device)} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{modeling coordinates}} are local to the object and {\bf{world coordinates}} are the common reference system} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{normalization transformation}} - maps the world coordinate window to a standard, device-independent coordinate system (simplify {\bf{clipping }}and {\bf{viewport mapping}})} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 4) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Sutherland-Hodgman:}}\{\{nl\}\} P1 inside, P2 inside → Output P2\{\{nl\}\} P1 inside, P2 outside → Output Intersection \{\{nl\}\} P1 outside, P2 inside → Output I, then P2 \{\{nl\}\}P1 outside, P2 outside → Output nothing} \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 5) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Line clipping algorithms:}} Cohen-Sutherland, Liang-Barsky (or Nicholl–Lee–Nicholl (NLN), Cyrus-Beck} \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{fig. 1}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\vspace{1px}\centerline{\includegraphics[width=5.1cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/uploads/racheleva_1777283683_Screenshot 2026-04-27 152400.png}}} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Cohen Sutherland} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Transformations}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\vspace{1px}\centerline{\includegraphics[width=5.1cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/uploads/racheleva_1777302526_Untitled-2025-06-11-0853.png}}} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Homogeneous Coordinates}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Extension of 2D Cartesian coordinates (x, y) to 3D (x, y, w).} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Point represented as a column vector {[}x, y, 1{]}\textasciicircum{}T.} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Without homogeneous coordinates, translation is vector addition (T + v), while others are matrix multiplications (M * v).} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{1. Unified Representation:}} 3x3 matrix multiplication} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{2. Efficient Concatenation:}} multiple transformations} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{3. Elegant Handling of Translation:}} translation requires addition} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{4. Ability to Represent Points at Infinity:}} advanced graphical concepts} \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{5. Simplified Inverse Transform:}} inverse of the single composite matrix,} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Trade-off with Cartesian system:}} \newline {\bf{1. Conceptual Complexity}} - understanding an extended coordinate system \newline {\bf{2. Computational Complexity}} - slight increase (3x3 instead of 2x2) per operation; though there is a computational gain through matrix concatenation (composite matrix) \newline ⇒ composite matrix transformations happen right to left} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.55618 cm} x{1.51041 cm} x{1.51041 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Polygon tables}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Vertex + Polygon Tables}} & {\bf{Single Integrated Polygon Table}} & {\bf{Three-Table Model}} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Vertex table (8 coords) + Polygon table (6 faces) & Each face stores full vertex coordinates (6 faces, 3 coordinates) & Vertex table + Edge table + Polygon table \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 24 floats + 24 ints & 72 floats & 24 floats + 48 ints \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} efficient, no duplication & simple & full topology, adjacency queries \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} no explicit edge info & high memory & more memory + complex \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Data Efficiency}}} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} best & worst & moderate \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{Integrated = simple but wasteful | Three-table = powerful but heavy | Vertex+Polygon = best balance} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{2D viewing pipeline process}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{1. World Window Definition}} & a rectangular region in the World Coordinate System (clipping boundary) \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{2. Viewport Definition}} & a rectangular region on the Device Coordinate System \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{3. Window-to-Viewport Mapping Process}} & linear transformation (mapping) from window to viewport \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Steps}}} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{1. Translate window → origin} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{2. Scale to viewport size} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{3. Translate to viewport position} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} (Additionally) P\textasciitilde{}screen\textasciitilde{}​=M\textasciitilde{}screen\textasciitilde{}​×M\textasciitilde{}viewport​\textasciitilde{}×M\textasciitilde{}zoom\textasciitilde{}​×M\textasciitilde{}pan​\textasciitilde{}×P\textasciitilde{}world​\textasciitilde{} & {\bf{Pan:}} M\textasciitilde{}pan\_i\textasciitilde{}=Translate by (-T\textasciitilde{}xi\textasciitilde{}, -T\textasciitilde{}yi\textasciitilde{}) \{\{nl\}\}{\bf{Zoom:}} M\_zoom\_i = Scale by (S\textasciitilde{}i\textasciitilde{}, S\textasciitilde{}i\textasciitilde{}) \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 6) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Flexibility:}} Separating pan \& zoom matrices allows independent control.} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Efficiency:}} GPU-friendly single matrix multiplication} \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Combined Importance}} \newline 1. Separation of Concerns (decouples scene design from display specs) \newline 2. Flexibility \& Reuse \newline 3. Device Independence} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.23965 cm} x{2.73735 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sutherland–Hodgman}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Inside test}} & x\textasciitilde{}min\textasciitilde{}​≤x≤x\textasciitilde{}max\textasciitilde{}​, y\textasciitilde{}min\textasciitilde{}​≤y≤y\textasciitilde{}max​\textasciitilde{} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{computationally cheap} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Intersection Checks for Lines}} & point where a polygon edge crosses a clip boundary. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Use line equations to calculate intersection coordinates} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{intersection becomes a new vertex; closed and correctly shaped} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Iterative Vertex Generation}} & processes the polygon against each clip boundary (left, right, bottom, top) successively. \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 5) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Modular and systematic}} - 4 simple clipping steps \newline {\bf{Builds final result incrementally}} } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.89126 cm} x{3.08574 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cohen–Sutherland}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Assign Region Codes}} & For both end points P\textasciitilde{}1\textasciitilde{} and P\textasciitilde{}2\textasciitilde{} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Perform Trivial Tests}}} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Trivial Acceptance: \seqsplit{(code1​∣code2​)=0000}} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Trivial Rejection: \seqsplit{(code1​\&code2​)≠0000}} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Select Outside Point}} & Choose endpoint with non-zero region code \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Find Intersection}} & Left/Right boundary (x = constant): y=y\textasciitilde{}1\textasciitilde{}​+m(x−x\textasciitilde{}1\textasciitilde{}) Top/Bottom boundary (y = constant): x=x\textasciitilde{}1\textasciitilde{}​+ (y−y\textasciitilde{}1\textasciitilde{}​)/m ​ \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 6) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Repeat}} & Continue until: Accepted (both codes = 0000), or Rejected (AND ≠ 0) \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}