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4 Aug 2024 12:20:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radial coordinates in POV  
From: Marc Jacquier
Date: 18 May 2003 04:23:41
Message: <3ec7430d$1@news.povray.org>

pan### [at] iastateedu...
> Hi all,
>
> POV, it seems, defines these in the opposite manner.  I was hoping that
> someone in the know could tell me whether this is a mistake, or if the
> convention is simply less well-defined than I believed.  After all, we
> usually use z-up cartesian coordinates in physics, too.  :)

But pov  uses a left hand coordinate system: x-right, y-up, z -ahead
>
Marc


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