so does all the activity in this thread mean that someone is interested
in trying to program the new camera?

ryan constantine wrote:
> 
> looking at the docs, i see that a cylindrical camera makes an image of
> the outside of the cylinder, which presumably has no radius.  what i
> would like to do is specify a radius (in order to envelope objects) and
> then create the image based on the inside of the cylinder.  this (i
> think) would have the effect of "unrolling" the object into two
> dimensions, ready to be used as a template for image maps, bumpmaps, or
> image pattern maps and could be rolled back onto the object using
> cylindical mapping.  this would eliminate the need to divide a model
> into two halves and then use planar image mapping as was done, for
> example, in h.e. day's raptor model.  a spherical cam that could also do
> this would be similarly useful.  would this be difficult to implement?
> do others think this would be useful?

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