Rendering a three-dimensional landscape requires that a two-dimensional view of the landscape be computed as a projection of the landscape onto a viewing plane which lies perpendicular to some line of sight vector. A mathematical formalism for specifying such a vector and for computing the resultant projection is presented. An implementation of the formalism is demonstrated using L^AT_EX, TikZ and my PKREALVECTOR C object class.

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