POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.object-collection : The Bright Star Catalogue : Re: The Bright Star Catalogue Server Time
26 Apr 2024 16:43:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Bright Star Catalogue  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 10 Feb 2018 22:27:51
Message: <5a7fb837$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/10/2018 10:22 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> Interesting. Would it work better with a cube oriented to face the 
> camera? I suppose the perspective distortion might make the cubes look 
> weird if they're toward the edges of the image. But spheres would end up 
> looking distorted too.
> 
> 
> Mike
> 

E.g. a true "one-pixel" POV-Ray object would not be distorted by 
perspective, which I think is realistic since stars are so distant and 
tiny that visual perspective has no effect on their perceived 
dimensions/brightness.


Mike


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