"DaBjork" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> First I should say this isn't a big deal, and povray is awesome all praise be to
> the creators so I only complain with deference in this and all matters to the
> brilliant and dedicated team that made this masterpiece to begin with
>
> I would say the biggest irk I have with povray is the aspect ratio issue.  I
> know the fix and I have read all about why it is the way it is but I must say,
> in this day and age, the need for a square or otherwise not 4x3 image (for
> instance for a wide screen monitor) seems much more prevalent than the need for
> non square pixels.  Of course it goes without saying that people who want the
> special and strange behavior should be the ones who have to enter the keywords
> in.  Frankly, I think in the modern world non square pixels are a sign of
> insanity.  I know we can all change our hideously low resolution windows boot
> screen to a hideously low resolution RAYTRACED boot screen (whoopie!) but I can
> honestly say that I have never even considered doing that.  On the other hand, I
> am constantly making square images for wiki pages and presentations.  I often
> take a formerly 4x3 image and make a square version for somebody.  I wish I
> could just change my makefile.  Maybe I'm alone here.
>
> Ok, I got that off my chest. please do not take offense, I am merely complaining
> to the ether, as I am continually impressed with the general awesomeness of the
> code.

I always just put the following into my camera:

camera {
 ...
 right x
 up y * image_height/image_width
 ...
}

Cheers,
Edouard.

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