On 11/17/2009 12:07 AM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Had the idea, while thinking about how you might show someone how POVRay
> ran. Once we have something that doesn't need to reparse, it might be
> interesting if, on versions like the Windows one, when you select a
> "sub-section" to re-render, the result could be run using the selected
> area as the "camera", adjusting its position, and what ever other
> attributes where needed, so it would be like actually zooming in on the
> area, not just redrawing that small area, with everything else blank.
> Mind, would require an on/off switch, or the drag to select use left
> mouse = redraw, right mouse = zoom, or the like.
>
> Anyway. Just figured I would toss it out there, since it could be useful
> in some cases.

I could see where something like this could be useful.

But what if the box you drag has a different aspect ratio? What happens 
then?

Mike

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