Currently the default camera aspect ratio is 1.33 instead of 4/3, even
though the default render size is 320x240 (which is 4/3). This was discussed
briefly in <http://news.povray.org/3bcc5632$1@news.povray.org> but the
discussion died out without a resolution.

This simple patch changes the default value of right to 4/3*x instead of
1.33*x:

--- povwin-3.5-orig/source/camera.cpp Sun Jul 28 00:53:16 2002
+++ povwin-3.5/source/camera.cpp Wed Nov 27 14:16:50 2002
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ CAMERA *Create_Camera()
   Make_Vector(New->Location,    0.0,  0.0, 0.0);
   Make_Vector(New->Direction,   0.0,  0.0, 1.0);
   Make_Vector(New->Up,          0.0,  1.0, 0.0);
-  Make_Vector(New->Right,       1.33, 0.0, 0.0);
+  Make_Vector(New->Right,       4.0 / 3.0, 0.0, 0.0);
   Make_Vector(New->Sky,         0.0,  1.0, 0.0);
   Make_Vector(New->Look_At,     0.0,  0.0, 1.0);
   Make_Vector(New->Focal_Point, 0.0,  0.0, 1.0);

Anders

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