On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:00:41 +0100, Mark Weyer
<wey### [at] fregemathematikuni-freiburgde> wrote:
> While patching an extended cylindircal camera mode,
> I would have liked povray to support a freeform
> camera mode. The user should supply two vector
> functions LOCATION and DIRECTION. Then the ray
> that belongs to position (x,y) on the screen will
> start at LOCATION(x,y) and head in DIRECTION(x,y).
> I understand that programmable vector functions
> are planned for the next release anyway.
> This feature's advantages:
> - More flexible camera.
> - More stable code, if the old camera types
>   are subsumed by the new one.
> Just a suggestion, I am fine with my patch.

there were some patches like your propositions in the past, either camera
based pigements and functions. dig in povray.programming and
povray.unofficial.patches.

ABX

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