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30 Jul 2024 02:15:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 'Orthographic spherical' camera?  
From: CShake
Date: 5 Jan 2010 22:23:15
Message: <4b440223@news.povray.org>
Kevin Wampler wrote:
> David Given wrote:
>> Having thought about it some more, I think that what I'm looking for is
>> a cross between an orthographic and spherical camera --- I want Povray
>> to cast rays radially inwards from a spherical viewing surface towards
>> the centre of my model. Does such a thing exist? If not, can I fake it?
> 
> I haven't actually tried this, but perhaps you could put a spherical 
> camera at the center of your moon, put everything in your scene into an 
> object{...} construct with the no_image attribute, and then put a large 
> perfectly reflective sphere centered at your camera around the scene?
Good idea, but make sure to set max_trace_level so you don't get 
infinite internal reflection.


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