"Antonio Ferrari" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I've read that Povray 4.0 code, if I am not wrong, will be a porting of old
> 3.6 features into 3.7 architecture.
>
> So, why not to introduce some new features?

  A couple ideas about cameras, both[I think] fairly trivial.

(1) Currently, if I understand correctly, if multiple cameras are included in a
scene file only one will be used. It would be useful to be able to include
multiple cameras and have each used in turn (like the familiar scene at a
tourist site when everybody hands their camera to the tour guide to take the
same shot of the group!) This would however need some way to disambiguate the
image name, perhaps an extra "camera_name" field in the camera definition.


(2) Currently there are cameras with parallel rays and cameras with diverging
pencils of rays. How about a keyword that would allow a camera to "shoot in
form infinity" along a converging pencil of rays? The result, if mapped onto a
sphere,  would be something like a "Termesphere"(tm), or like the images used
by Poser and similar programs to store faces.

   -Robert Dawson

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