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  Re: Possible new features?  
From: Warp
Date: 5 Nov 2007 12:08:44
Message: <472f4e1c@news.povray.org>
Robert Dawson <rda### [at] csstmarysca> wrote:
> (2) Currently there are cameras with parallel rays and cameras with diverging
> pencils of rays. How about a keyword that would allow a camera to "shoot in
> form infinity" along a converging pencil of rays? The result, if mapped onto a
> sphere,  would be something like a "Termesphere"(tm), or like the images used
> by Poser and similar programs to store faces.

  This is, again, something which should not be a part of the core code,
but easily scriptable. IOW, if there isn't a suitable camera type, you
write one with SDL.

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                                                          - Warp


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