1 /*
2 * Copyright (C) 2012 Alberto Irurueta Carro (alberto@irurueta.com)
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package com.irurueta.geometry;
17
18 /**
19 * Enumeration indicating camera type.
20 */
21 public enum CameraType {
22 /**
23 * Pinhole camera. A pinhole camera is a linear mapping between 3D and 2D
24 * worlds. Pinhole cameras only take into account translation, rotation and
25 * camera intrinsic parameters such as focal length, aspect ratio, skewness
26 * and principal point.
27 * Pinhole cameras perform projective mappings between 3D and 2D worlds,
28 * in other words, the farther an object is, the smaller is represented or
29 * parallel lines converge into vanishing points.
30 * Pinhole cameras cannot be used for orthographic projections (where
31 * parallelism between lines is preserved and there are no vanishing points).
32 */
33 PINHOLE_CAMERA
34 }