I just realized this is the multi-camera concept brought up more than once
before.

Bob

"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> In article <38791f53@news.povray.org>, "Nathan Kopp" <Nat### [at] Koppcom>
> wrote:
>
> > There are two concepts here.  One is the portal (hologram), the other is
> > the camera.  They would have to work differently, I think.
>
> Good point, if you made a security camera monitor using the portal
> pigment, the areas visible through it would change as you moved around
> the monitor.
> One possible solution would be a pigment which would take the same
> information the camera takes. This would probably have to render the
> scene from the point of view of the target position and use that as an
> image map(internally). While this would be very useful, it might be
> quite difficult to code.
>
> I would be satasfied with the portal pigment. Image maps could be used
> for security monitors.
>
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> Chris Huff
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