On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 01:30:14 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 20:16:48 +0200, hjp### [at] SiKituwsracat (Peter
>J. Holzer) wrote:
>
>>While playing around with superellipsoids and the orthographic camera
>>I found that the superellipsoid vanishes if the camera is pointing
>>exactly along the X axis. 
>
>You're right it has been discussed but I don't recall anyone coming up
>with a solution. IIRC, though, the person who discovered the bug had a
>more typical camera setup, i.e. camera at -z looking at z.



I didn't notice the effect at the z or y axis.

>Maybe it is related to the camera rays being parallel to one of the
>superellipsoid's local axes.

Yep, I think so.

	hp

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