On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:37:19 -0500, Bob Hughes wrote:
>Please forgive me if I'm being ignorant but from what Ron has said
>about planar applied rays (sorry Ron, I'm quoting vaguely) versus
>spherical it seems the "depth" is not a part of the original
>calculations.  Could that be true at all? For instance, a scene gets
>figured orthographically first maybe and then any other camera
>perspectives are added into that afterward, like a sort of non-ray
>warping?

Nope, not true at all.  The camera type is the only thing that determines 
the distribution of the eye rays that are shot into the scene.

My calculations were for a standard perspective camera, as that was the 
only kind available in POV 2.2.  They'd do weird things with the newer 
camera types.

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