"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:57:17 +0100, Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> > In article <3c44bfde@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>
wrote:
> >
> >>   angle seems to have no effect whatsoever:
> >>
> >> camera
> >> { panoramic
> >>   location -z look_at 0
> >>   angle 30
> >> }
> >> light_source { y*100, 1 }
> >> plane { y,-1 pigment { checker rgb 1, rgb .5 } }
> >
> > Is angle supposed to work with other camera types than "perspective"?
>
> ultra_wide_angle uses it.  Other types might, too.  Panoramic does not,
> if the code in create_ray is to be believed.

It's supposed to use angle and go beyond 180 degrees I believe.  Yes, the
Scene Help says so anyway.
While on this subject, I just used the Insert Menu to check what it uses and
to my surprise that pesky fisheye type is in there again in place of
panoramic.  The others seem okay.

bob h

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