More than sure. The aspect ratio distorted the spheres and setting it back
to square made a major difference.  I guess I will create an example but one
way to really see it is to render in a mode like 1024 x 10.  Obviously the
spheres will be extremely warped due to the aspect ratio.  1024 x 768 isn't
as bad but is still warped.  1024 x 1024 gives the correct image. I'll try
posting an example tonight in the binaries.images section.

"Margus Ramst" <mar### [at] peakeduee> wrote in message
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> "Patrick Dugan" <pat### [at] usticom> wrote:
>
> > Issue has been resolved.  Although I read a lot of feedback the problem
> > was due to rendering resolution. The distortion came from rendering the
> > image 1024x768.  There the spheres are warped (and incorrectly so to my
> > eyes) so I tried rendering the image "square" at 1024x1024.  Voila!  The
> > spheres are now correctly shaped and the perspective is normal to my
> > eyeballs.
>
> Are you sure?
> With the standard perspective camera, objects are *always* stretched
towards
> the edges of the image, no matter what your aspect ratio. Near the sides
of
> the image, they are stretched laterally. If you simply changed the aspect
> ratio of the image without modifying the up and right vectors, the image
> would be stretched vertically (try it: for example render skyvase.pov with
+h300
> +w100). This might seem to compensate for the lateral stretching near the
> image sides, but the center and upper & lower edges of the image would
> still appear distorted.
>
> --
> Margus Ramst
>
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