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19 Apr 2024 19:23:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New tutorial about 2D screen coordinates  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 1 Sep 2018 23:08:41
Message: <5b8b5439$1@news.povray.org>
On 9/1/2018 9:54 PM, Kenneth wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>> For ages I have been using Norbert Kern's
>> position_finder.pov macro from 2006
>>
>>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.scene-files/attachment/%3Cweb.4478509041a06b1c9bff7e8b0%40news.povray.org%3E/p
> osition_finder.pov.txt
>>
> 
> For anyone who's interested, here's the link to Norbert's original post (which
> took me awhile to find)...
> 
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.44784f2141a06b1c9bff7e8b0%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=423977
> &toff=3700
> 
> It's not very detailed, unfortunately.
> 
> Thomas, I've been playing around with his code, and I see where some
> improvements can be made. One of the problems I've come across is that the code
> itself seems to be built around a 'backward'-facing camera (i.e., the camera
> position and look_at point resulting in a -z look_at direction.) With a regular
> forward-facing camera, the code produces some odd results (and fixing things is
> apparently not just a simple matter of tweaking only one thing.) But I'm
> continuing to work at it...and to find some way to improve it's accuracy (which
> I suspect is due to whatever particular camera angle is used-- it *seems* to be
> more accurate with a 'zoom' angle rather than wide-angle.) It's quite a
> 'magical' piece of code otherwise.
> 

Could you provide a sample where the script fails? I tried a +z to -z 
camera direction, as well as a wide angle, and the numbers seemed okay.


Mike


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