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30 Jul 2024 10:18:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cabinet or 1/2 Cabinet Camera  
From: PoD
Date: 6 Sep 1999 12:27:36
Message: <37D3EC54.2DF7250@merlin.net.au>
"J. Grimbert" wrote:
> 
> I would like to use pov to render a view like the
> own drawn below for a box
> 
>   +--+
>  /  /|
> +--+ |
> |  | +
> |  |/
> +--+
> 
> It's just the classical 3D technical drawing...
> It looks like the orthographic camera, but
> increase of the z is transformed as p*(x+y),
> with p either 1/2, 1 or 3/4 ...
> 
> Have anybody any suggestion on how to achieve that ?
>  (with all pov-object, of course, not only the box).

Hmm. I can't think of a simple way but _a_ way is to apply a shear
operation to each object at the origin and then translate into position.

Cheers, PoD.


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