scott wrote:
> I think I am saying "I don't care about aspect ratio in my scene", but 
> POV interprets this as "I will fix your aspect ratio for you and give 
> you rectangular pixels" which is totally backwards.

You don't seem to understand POV.  When POV-Ray renders a scene, it 
renders it *exactly* the same way, every time.  The *output* file does 
NOT change the scene you are given.

If YOU specify a resolution that gives you non-square pixels, POV will 
oblige.  The output image will exactly fill any resolution you throw at 
POV, from 1x10,000, to 1600x1200, to 2458x123.  In any of the 
situations, if you mapped the resulting image to an identical area of 
your screen, the image will be the same.

If YOU specify a resolution with non-square pixels, then that's YOUR 
choice, and POV assumes you know what you're doing (frequently, you do). 
  POV does NOT assume that you're an idiot who can't do 4th grade math 
and try to correct the image for you.

-- 
Chambers

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