Thank you for the help and suggestions with this. After playing with the suggested formulas I was able to figure out how they work... The solution to this is probably somewhere but I ended up just doing it myself.
I realized that Thomas' formula var H1 = (Y - X) * 0.86602 + ScreenOrgin_H; var V1 = (X + Y) * 0.5 - Z + ScreenOrgin_V; was multipying by the cosine of 30 degrees for H1 and the Sine of 30 degrees for V1.... and Gustavo's forumla was basically the same thing but multiplying by the cosine and sine of 45 degrees... so I realized that all I really want to do has nothing to do with camera angles, or projections or anythng else... I just strictly need do the 3D rotations then just display the resulting X, and Y coordinate and ignore Z. My original 2D representaion showing only X and Y is as if I am looking perfectly straight down at it.. so I can't see the Z only lines, but after I perform the 3D rotations now I can see the Z component as they end up being represented on the X and Y axis.... but I still act like I am still looking straight down at it, so I only plot X and Y. I checked the results of my formula against my CAD program everything looks EXACTLY the same no matter how I change the rotations, so this must be what the CAD program is doing as well. Here are the formula I came up with that allows me to adjust the 3 possible rotations, A - rotating around the X axis, B rotating around the Y axis, and C rotating around the Z axis. X1 - initial X coordinate Y1 - initial Y coordinate Z1 - initial Z coordinate X2 - output X coordinate Y2 - output Y coordinate //XY Rotation - only rotates X and Y around the Z axis (C Rotation) XC_Point := ((CoSine(C_Angle) * (X1-XC_Center)) - (Sine(C_Angle) * (Y1-YC_Center) )) + XC_Center; YC_Point := ((CoSine(C_Angle) * (Y1-YC_Center)) + (Sine(C_Angle) * (X1-XC_Center) )) + YC_Center; ZC_Point :=Z1; //XZ Rotation - only rotates X and Z around the Y axis (B Rotation) XB_Point := ((CoSine(B_Angle) * (XC_Point-XB_Center)) + (Sine(B_Angle) * (ZC_Point-ZB_Center) )) + XB_Center; YB_Point := YC_Point; ZB_Point := ((CoSine(B_Angle) * (ZC_Point-ZB_Center)) - (Sine(B_Angle) * (XC_Point-XB_Center) )) + ZB_Center; //YZ Rotation - only rotates Y and Z around the X axis (A Rotation) XA_Point := XB_Point; YA_Point := ((CoSine(A_Angle) * (YB_Point-YA_Center)) - (Sine(A_Angle) * (ZB_Point-ZA_Center) )) +@YA_Center; ZA_Point := ((CoSine(A_Angle) * (XB_Point-XA_Center)) + (Sine(A_Angle) * (ZB_Point-ZA_Center) )) + XA_Center; // useless to plot point, just for information X2 := Scale * XA_Point+X_Offset; Y2 := Scale * YA_Point+Y_Offset; Notes: My fuctions CoSine and Sine convert the angle to radians from given degrees. I have my 0,0 located in the lower left hand corner, but PTC-Graph has it in the upper left corner.. I used the above formula before the section that takes care of getting it on the screen, I don't know if some adjustment would be nessecary for use on direct screen coordinates... things might end up upside down, or the rotations might need to be reversed by switching the + and - between CoSine and Sine because of this.. Thank you again for all the help and suggestions. I also found the websites and books on the subject very interesting as well. James -----Original Message----- From: fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Young via fpc-pascal Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 5:00 PM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> Cc: Thomas Young <tygraph...@icloud.com> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Calculating Pixels to represent 3D coordinates This is an isometric projection I use: var H1 = (Y - X) * 0.86602 + ScreenOrgin_H; var V1 = (X + Y) * 0.5 - Z + ScreenOrgin_V; Thomas Young 330-256-7064 Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 17, 2019, at 4:53 PM, Gustavo Enrique Jimenez <gejime...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > A simple transformation is: > > P3D=(X,Y,Z) > P2D=(x,y) > > x=X+Y*0.707 > y=Y*0.707+Z > > I did not tried it, but I think that this is the transformation that > you are looking for. > > > Gustavo > > El mar., 17 sept. 2019 a las 17:37, James Richters > (<ja...@productionautomation.net>) escribió: >> >>> What exactly are you trying to do? Usually if you’re doing 3D this all >>> happens on the GPU and you get back a color/depth buffer. Maybe you need to >>> know where a 2D coordinate is in 3D space? >> >> What I'm trying to do is much simpler than rendering a 3D object.. All I'm >> trying to do is display a 3D line drawing or wireframe on the screen. I >> don't need it to dynamically rotate or anything, and it doesn't need to show >> any surfaces, textures, lighting, reflections, or shadows, just give a >> representation of the XYZ points and lines connecting 2 pair of XYZ >> coordinates on the screen. The purpose of this is to show a 3D >> representation of a CNC tool path including the Z movements. >> >> James >> _______________________________________________ >> fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org >> https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
