Mark M. Wilson <mmw### [at] ncsldcrstatencus> wrote:
: Never occurred to me that you could do a negative scale -- does that
: help make a mirror image of a non-symmetrical obj. in a way that merely


  Again, think about your hands: No matter how you ROTATE your right hand,
it will never be identical to your left hand. So rotating doesn't help.
  A negative scaling just mirrors the object in the direction of the axis
(internally it doesn't differ at all from a regular positive scale).

: That sounds really interesting -- I'll have to check it out.  Is the
: syntax for doing a RH camera addressed in the POVray manual?

  What you have to do to make a right-handed camera is to, surprise surprise,
mirror the camera about an axis.
  For more details, see
http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/morayVFAQ.html#handedness

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