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31 Jul 2024 18:20:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wide-screen orthographic camera?  
From: Grassblade
Date: 8 Feb 2007 16:30:01
Message: <web.45cb9540b7cf3473cabcaa820@news.povray.org>
"Steve Webb" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> camera {
>         orthographic
>         right image_width/1.7315
>         up image_height/1.7315
>         look_at 0
>         location z*2000
>         }
>
> (Don't ask me why 1.7315 is the magic divisor, but it works perfectly).
>
That looks suspiciously like square root of 3. I don't know if trigonometry
applies to image_width, but that would be the tan of 60 degrees. I have no
clue why it would be so.


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