Ladder

Viewport — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. one pixel is an areacentrescornersprincipal point moves0.707 pxfocal length changes by4.5e-13 pxan edge-versus-centre viewport1.303 pxa half-pixel convention is a principal-point error; an off-by-one viewport is a focal-length error8 vertices, all shifted by the same 0.7071 pxspread across marks 0.0e+0 px

    A pixel is not a point

    Where the sample sits inside a pixel is a convention, and getting it wrong shifts every mark by half a pixel in each axis. This site can say what that costs, because it recovers cameras from pictures — the answer is a principal point exactly 0.707 px from the truth with the focal length untouched, and the other half-pixel mistake does precisely the reverse.

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