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Summary: An additional useful transformation would be
Perspective.
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#tra
nsformations
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P3
Component: HTML5 spec
AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
CC: ian@hixie.ch, mjs@apple.com, mike@w3.org,
public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
public-html@w3.org, excors@gmail.com,
brille1@hotmail.com
This was was cloned from bug 9235 as part of operation LATER convergence.
Originally filed: 2010-03-12 19:54:00 +0000
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#0 contributor@whatwg.org 2010-03-12 19:54:20 +0000
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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#transformations
Comment:
An additional useful transformation would be Perspective.
Posted from: 93.206.128.135
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#1 Axel Dahmen 2010-03-12 19:57:41 +0000
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Perspecive would make it possible to add pseudo 3D to 2D surfaces.
A possible function declaration would be:
context.perspective(dx1,dy1,dx2,dy2,dx3,dy3,dx4,dy5)
Where parameters constitute four tuples, describing an offset from each of the
four viewport corners.
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#2 Axel Dahmen 2010-03-20 17:27:50 +0000
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I wrote a typo by mistake. The perspective function declaration should look
like this, of course:
context.perspective(dx1,dy1, dx2,dy2, dx3,dy3, dx4,dy4)
The tuples should be given in this sequence: top-left, top-right, bottom-left,
bottom-right.
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#3 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-21 00:02:15 +0000
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(In reply to comment #2)
> I wrote a typo by mistake. The perspective function declaration should look
> like this, of course:
>
> context.perspective(dx1,dy1, dx2,dy2, dx3,dy3, dx4,dy4)
>
> The tuples should be given in this sequence: top-left, top-right, bottom-left,
> bottom-right.
>
I think we can leave perspective transforms to WebGL:
<https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl/doc/spec/WebGL-spec.html>
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#4 Axel Dahmen 2010-03-22 12:25:30 +0000
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Actually, because CSS3 implements the same functionality as the canvas element
(which makes me believe that the canvas element becomes redundant then), I have
suggested the same functionality to CSS3.
Please find the current discussion at:
"comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets", "CSS3 Transformation Suggestion:
Add additional perspective version to 3D transformations"
- or -
"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets/browse_thread/thread/389a6a51be2ad903"
In the course of that discussion it became clear that the name "perspective"
and "3D" don't meet the actual goal of this function.
In fact the function prototype I'm suggesting is more general
than the other canvas transformation function.
With the suggested transform method it is possible to map all existing basic
transformation functions - the translate as well as the scale, skew and rotate
function, all into one single function.
So I suggest to call it something global like "transform" then.
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#5 Philip Taylor 2010-03-23 16:07:09 +0000
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There is already a general "transform" function, which can do
translations/rotations/scales/skews in a single function. (It's limited to
affine transformations, though, so it can't do perspective. Would
implementations be able to cope with non-affine transformations?)
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#6 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-02 01:23:26 +0000
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: This is something we should look at again in a future version, but
we've got enough trouble getting the browsers to implement the current stuff
without adding more complexity already. Baby steps.
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#7 Axel Dahmen 2010-05-07 03:24:02 +0000
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Sure. I'm looking forward to upcoming versions of the spec then.
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#8 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-02-29 22:23:10 +0000
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Punting again for now.
I think the best way to move forward on this would be to get a user agent to
implement an experimental version of this, so we can experiment with it before
adding it to the spec.
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#9 Axel Dahmen 2012-03-11 21:20:35 +0000
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Thank you for putting this on the new schedule.
I can't provide a sample implementation, I'm afraid. However I can provide a
small presentation demonstrating the expected result.
Here's the URL to the file:
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=f18aeca352311e71&id=F18AECA352311E71!236&sff=1
While working on the presentation I noticed that a _function_ does not quite
yield the most flexibility. There would be a second function necessary to be
able to read the currently computed Canvas 2D Context corner position values.
So I'd like to amend my suggestion to not provide a Transformation/Perspective
function but to add a Transformation object property to the Context object. (I
will continue to use my suggested type/property names for now to be consistent.
I do not presume any naming scheme here.)
The Transformation object returned by the 2D Context object should in turn
provide four properties representing each of the four Context corners. The type
of each of these properties would be TransformationPoint, providing a delta X
and a delta Y value.
Here's the suggested type definition:
Transformation := {"upperLeft":new TransformationPoint()
,"upperRight":new TransformationPoint()
,"lowerLeft":new TransformationPoint()
,"lowerRight":new TransformationPoint()
}
TransformationPoint := {dX:0, dY:0}
Using this definition it would later even be possible to do spline kind of
transformations by defining two spline point positions with each
TransformationPoint object. These spline point positions would be given
relative to the TransformationPoint object's values.
Given the spline extension, the TransformationPoint class would look like this:
TransformationPoint := {dX:0
,dY:0
,bezierClockwise:new TransformationPoint()
,bezierCounterClockwise:new TransformationPoint()
}
RFC
Axel Dahmen
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