2D Viewing Transformation: Viewport

The user may want to create images on different parts of the screen so we define a viewport in Normalized Device Coordinates (NDC). Using NDC also allows for output device independence. Later we will map from NDC to Physical Device Coordinates (PDC).

Normalized Device Coordinates: Let the entire display surface have coordinate values 0.0 <= x,y <= 1.0
Command: Set_viewport2(Xvmin,Xvmax,Yvmin,Yvmax)

Examples

To draw in bottom 1/2 of screen Set_viewport2( 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.5)
To draw in upper right hand corner: Set_viewport2( 0.5, 1.0, 0.5, 1.0 )

Can display multiple images in different viewports:

Set_window( -30, +30, -15, +15); Set_viewport(0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 0.5); -- lower left Draw_house; Set_viewport(0.5, 1.0, 0.0, 0.5); -- lower right Draw_house; Set_viewport(0.0, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0); -- upper left Draw_house; Set_viewport( 0.5, 1.0, 0.5, 1.0); -- upper right Draw_house; This gives the following image:

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