POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Look_at hates me : Re: Look_at hates me Server Time
29 Jul 2024 02:28:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Look_at hates me  
From: clipka
Date: 21 Aug 2013 09:42:53
Message: <5214c3dd$1@news.povray.org>
Am 21.08.2013 15:24, schrieb Bald Eagle:
>
>> I have no idea what look_at does when you apply rotations and
>> translations first. "Something unexpected" would be my first guess. (I'm
>> actually quite surprised it doesn't give you an error message.)
>
> I assumed that since I applied those transformations BEFORE the look_at part,
> that it would change the camera position, and then look_at would be invoked to
> ..... look at.

It may give you some consolation that your assumption was perfectly 
reasonable. POV-Ray's camera statement, unfortunately, is not.


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