POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Pixel Mapping : Re: Pixel Mapping Server Time
1 Jul 2024 06:03:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pixel Mapping  
From: Captain Jack
Date: 13 Nov 2009 09:55:10
Message: <4afd734e$1@news.povray.org>
"SharkD" <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
news:4afc881b@news.povray.org...
> On 11/2/2009 11:18 AM, Christian Froeschlin wrote:
>> Captain Jack wrote:
>>
>>> A couple of the things I want to be able to do with it are to generate
>>> images that occupy specific portions of the screen, and to be able to
>>> map a "hot point" of a moving object in an animtion to apply other
>>> effects in other software.
>>
>> You might wish to have a look at screen.inc. It should help with
>> the first part of your problem and provide a framework for writing
>> a 3d to 2d projection macro.
>
> It only works with the perspective camera. :(
>
> I'll see if I can fix it.
>
> Mike

That'd be great... it seems like it should be a simple thing, I don't know 
why I'm having so much trouble with it.

Historically, though, every time I think something should be easy, it turns 
out that I've completely missed the subtelties of the problem. :D

--
Jack


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