What?
The person has his/her own perspective and
so does the camera. So you're wrong.
Perhaps you wanted me to put in the
photographer in the back? ;)

/Stefan



"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3f1bfddb@news.povray.org...
>   Why is it such a common mistake when making an image of someone looking
> at himself/herself in a mirror, that the image shows the reflection of
> the person in the mirror?
>   Think about it: If the camera sees the person in the mirror, what does
> the person see in the mirror? The camera, of course. Not himself/herself.
>
>   So one has to think: Why is this person looking at the camera through
> the mirror?
>
> --
> #macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb
M()}}
> N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
> N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  -
Warp -

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