Pinhole Cameras, Perspective, and Projective Geometry
The author has been concerned with the problem of locating from a part of a photo the position from which the photo was taken. ``Byproducts are several relevant collinearity results in the geometry of the plane, which surprisingly do not seem to be amongst the exercises in books on (projective) geometry. The first of these byproducts (Proposition 1.1) is known as the \textit{Reidemeister condition} [compare, e.g., \textit{P. Dembowski}, Finite geometries, Springer (1968; Zbl 0159.50001) (1997; Zbl 0865.51004) or \textit{G. Pickert}, Projektive Ebenen, Springer (1975; Zbl 0307.50001)]. Propisition 2.1 is more complicated, its proof could be simplified by making use of the fact that the automorphism group of the real projective plane is transitive on quadrangles. Sect. 3 deals shortly with collinearity preserving maps of projective \(3\)-space \(P_3\mathbb R\) to \(P_2\mathbb R\). In Sect. 4 the author discusses the central projection of \(P_3\mathbb R\) onto one of its projective subplanes which extends the map given by a pinhole camera from a part of \({\mathbb R}^3\) onto the film.
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