POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Beam Engine : Re: Beam Engine Server Time
19 Apr 2024 07:49:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Beam Engine  
From: Subclick
Date: 22 Jan 2021 04:37:07
Message: <87y2gls471.fsf@sp.am>
"m@b" <sai### [at] googlemailcom> writes:
> The sun is 100 million units away and the beams
> are still not appearing to be parallel, any
> thoughts?
>
> light_source{<-40, 55, 100>*1000000 color
> rgb<1,1,1>*10 parallel point_at <0,0,0>}

The light rays emitted by that light source /are/ parallel.  Their
images, as produced by a perspective camera, are not supposed to
be—you’d need an orthographic camera for that.  Rather, they intersect
where the image of the Sun would be if it were visible.


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