"Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim.nikias (@) nolights.de> wrote in message
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> Well, the point of look_at is to provide a center on which the image
> focusses. For the actual camera focus, focal-blur using a different
> focal_point might achieve what you're after, since it can effectively blur
> the look_at position (given the right scene).

The effect I'm after isn't really anything to do with focal-blur.

> Aside of that, how about moving look_at somewhere else? I don't get why
> you'd want the camera to behave irrationally and look at something different
> than look_at. :-S

To be honest, I'm not *entirely* sure myself - except to say that I want the
subject of my image to not be in the centre of the image, and not distorted by
being elsewhere. I've posted an image to binaries.images (look_at image) to show
the effect (note the distorted/undistorted sphere - heh, well hard to miss it;).

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