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  Re: detail information about location of camera  
From: clipka
Date: 6 Jan 2014 06:23:04
Message: <52ca9218$1@news.povray.org>
Am 06.01.2014 07:06, schrieb Simon:

> Due to the need of my research, I eagerly need the specific information of
> location of camera.
>
> The help file only tells location is the position of the camera, but which
> part of a real camera does this position describe? Is it the optic center,
> principle point or other parameter of a real camera?

I'm not an expert at Gaussian optics (just learned about it right now 
from Wikipedia :-)), but it would seem to me that the camera location 
defines none of the cardinal points, but rather the no-parallax point 
(aka center of perspective, perspective point, view point or projection 
centre).


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