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From: Gyscos
Date: 16 Jan 2011 09:25:01
Message: <web.4d32ff67dd319b6db46bd10b0@news.povray.org>
Hello !

I understand why systematically fixing the camera aspect ratio to the image
pixel ratio is bad, because one might want to render images for non-squares
pixel display (or one might just want to experiment).

But shouldn't the default value be set to the ratio of the image's pixels ?
Squared pixels, if not omnipresent, are at least more common than non-suared
pixels (especially with non-cathodics screens), and the current "4/3" default
ratio pretty much sounds like a magic number to me anyway.

Then again, there might be reasons I am not aware of ; please be indulgent :)


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