diff --git a/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphics2D.java b/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphics2D.java
index fbb8779e3..18df3b2a6 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphics2D.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphics2D.java
@@ -119,8 +119,11 @@ public class PGraphics2D extends PGraphicsOpenGL {
 
   @Override
   protected void defaultPerspective() {
-//    super.ortho(width/2f, (3f/2f) * width, -height/2f, height/2f, -1, +1);
-    super.ortho(0, width, 0, height, -1, +1);
+    // The camera part of the modelview is simply the identity matrix, so in
+    // order to the ortho projection to be consistent with this, it needs to be
+    // set as follows, because ortho() will shift the viewing rectangle at
+    // (width/2, height/2) and will also apply the axis inversion along Y:
+    super.ortho(width/2f, (3f/2f) * width, -height/2f, height/2f, -1, +1);
   }
 
 
@@ -157,8 +160,7 @@ public class PGraphics2D extends PGraphicsOpenGL {
 
   @Override
   protected void defaultCamera() {
-    super.camera(width/2f, height/2f);
-//    resetMatrix();
+    resetMatrix();
   }
 
 
@@ -182,11 +184,6 @@ public class PGraphics2D extends PGraphicsOpenGL {
     popProjection();
   }
 
-  @Override
-  public void resetMatrix() {
-    super.resetMatrix();
-    defaultCamera();
-  }
 
   //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
diff --git a/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphics3D.java b/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphics3D.java
index 43aa52251..38b3e775d 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphics3D.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphics3D.java
@@ -87,7 +87,20 @@ public class PGraphics3D extends PGraphicsOpenGL {
     pushProjection();
     ortho(0, width, 0, height, -1, +1);
     pushMatrix();
-    camera(width/2, height/2);
+
+    // Set camera for 2D rendering, it simply centers at (width/2, height/2)
+    float centerX = width/2;
+    float centerY = height/2;
+    modelview.reset();
+    modelview.translate(-centerX, -centerY);
+
+    modelviewInv.set(modelview);
+    modelviewInv.invert();
+
+    camera.set(modelview);
+    cameraInv.set(modelviewInv);
+
+    updateProjmodelview();
   }
 
 
diff --git a/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphicsOpenGL.java b/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphicsOpenGL.java
index cb5aab67f..e174b3254 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphicsOpenGL.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/opengl/PGraphicsOpenGL.java
@@ -2508,7 +2508,7 @@ public class PGraphicsOpenGL extends PGraphics {
   // an 'in-place' implementation of quick I whipped together late at night
   // based off of the algorithm found on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort
   private void quickSortTris(int leftI, int rightI) {
-    if(leftI < rightI) {
+    if (leftI < rightI) {
       int pivotIndex = (leftI + rightI)/2;
       int newPivotIndex = partition(leftI,rightI,pivotIndex);
       quickSortTris(leftI, newPivotIndex-1);
@@ -4390,21 +4390,6 @@ public class PGraphicsOpenGL extends PGraphics {
   }
 
 
-  // Sets a camera for 2D rendering, which only involves centering
-  public void camera(float centerX, float centerY) {
-    modelview.reset();
-    modelview.translate(-centerX, -centerY);
-
-    modelviewInv.set(modelview);
-    modelviewInv.invert();
-
-    camera.set(modelview);
-    cameraInv.set(modelviewInv);
-
-    updateProjmodelview();
-  }
-
-
   /**
    * Print the current camera matrix.
    */
@@ -4453,6 +4438,9 @@ public class PGraphicsOpenGL extends PGraphics {
   public void ortho(float left, float right,
                     float bottom, float top,
                     float near, float far) {
+    // Translating the origin to (widht/2, height/2) since the matrix math
+    // below assumes the center of the screen to be (0, 0), but in Processing
+    // it is (w/2, h/2).
     left   -= width/2f;
     right  -= width/2f;
     bottom -= height/2f;