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. Here is a short scene file to demonstrate the effect:

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. Maybe it is
related to the camera rays being parallel to one of the
superellipsoid's local axes. A superelly is a strange beast :)

Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
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