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On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:09:03 -0000, "Andrew Coppin"
<orp### [at] btinternet com> said:
>I don't know what the name for this effect is, but a lot of adverts seem to
>be using it.
>
>The best example I can this of is from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the
>Ring. (If you haven't seen this, the next bit won't make sense.) Just after
>Frodo & co fall down the bank and find the bunch of mushrooms, Frodo looks
>down the road, and yells at the others to "get off the road".
>
>But anyway, as he looks down the road, they do a camera trick where the
>foreground seems to move away, and yet the background gets nearer.
>
>Anyway, after that long and convoluted description... what's this trick
>called, and can POV-Ray do it? (That's all I wanted to know. *heh*)
>
>Andrew.
>
I don't know what that effect is called, but I imagine POV-Ray could
do it in an animation. The trick is to dolly the camera away from the
subject while simultaneously zooming in at a rate to match (or you can
dolly forward while zooming out, it's equivalent).
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