My memory is a bit foggy of all the things I tried. I probably should go home
for lunch and post to this ng the actual tracings, but the problem went
something like this:

///THIS IS WICKEDLY DISTORTED
box{<0,0,0>,<1.,1,0.001>
                pigment{
                        image_map{
                                tga "c:\My Documents\left2.tga"
                                once
                               }
                        }
                finish {ambient 1 diffuse 0}
                translate <-0.5,-0.5,-0.05>
                scale 14
                translate -17*x -1.5*y  +3*z
        }

// CHANGE  If my aspect ratio were 0.126  : 1.0 x:y, then

   box{<0,0,0>,<0.126 , 1.0  ,0.001>

didn't work either!  Help!
Let's fix this in mega 0.5!!!!!!

Gail Shaw wrote:

> Greg M. Johnson wrote in message <38DF5802.32786C20@my-dejanews.com>...
> >Nope. I once tried changing the size of the box to fit the aspect ratio of
> the
> >image, and still got something stupidly distorted.
>
> Did you change the size before or after applying the image
>
> >Do we have to beg for a fix in mega 0.5, or isn't there SOME way to get pov
> to
> >'decal' this without crazy distortions?
> >
>
> It's not a bug.
>
> Please assume that img1.gif is 100*500 pixels.
>
> box {
>  <0,0,0>,<1,5,0.01>  // box starts with correct ratio
>  pigment {
>   image_map {
>     gif "img1.gif"
>   }
>   scale <1,5,1>  // scaling the pigment
>  }
> }
>
> The above code hasn't been tested, but I think it's right.
>
> Gail
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