Viewing Systems

Pinhole Camera

Consider the diagram of a pinhole camera:

where d is the distance from the pinhole to the focal plane located at −z (but, as a distance, is a positive number). Using similar triangles we have (−yp)/y = d/z; the minus sign makes yp a positive number.

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