POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Look_at hates me : Re: Look_at hates me Server Time
29 Jul 2024 02:26:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Look_at hates me  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 21 Aug 2013 09:25:00
Message: <web.5214bf85477db65973fc9ebb0@news.povray.org>
> I have no idea what look_at does when you apply rotations and
> translations first. "Something unexpected" would be my first guess. (I'm
> actually quite surprised it doesn't give you an error message.)

Another POV-Ray misconception ... shattered.  By C. "Thor" Lipka.

I assumed that since I applied those transformations BEFORE the look_at part,
that it would change the camera position, and then look_at would be invoked to
.... look at.

Notsomuch.

Thanks again for disabusing my brain.


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