Chris B wrote:
> 
> "R'Lee" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
> news:web.4add9ab64fbf7b498cc95c800@news.povray.org...
>> Howdy All. While exploring the Internet for artistic inspiration I
>> happened
>> across POV-Ray and decided to give it a try. That was Yesterday. I
>> began working
>> my way through the tutorials of course.
> 
> Welcome :-)
> 
>> Right off the bat I noticed that the
>> tutorial in describing lighting makes reference to something which is not
>> obviously available in the program. Specifically the tutorial says to
>> render one
>> of the examples at "200x150 -A" This setting is not readily available
>> in the
>> preset rendering options drop down.
> 
> I see this same resolution mentioned in sections 1.2.4.1, 1.2.4.2,
> 1.2.4.4, 1.3.1.6, 1.3.3.5 and 1.3.4.1,  (2.2.4.2 etc. in Windows Help)
> and at corresponding points through the Wiki. For the instances that
> I've looked at, the resolution doesn't seem to be hugely relevant to the
> text, so maybe we should just drop the resolution references at those
> points?
> 
> I'd be happy to nip in and edit the Wiki if everyone agrees.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris B.
> 

Sounds like a good idea to me. Most modern machines render so fast that
anti-aliasing and moderate resolutions are no problem at all. I suspect
that most of the tutorials in the docs are several years old.

John
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"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei

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