Just a tip :-)

My experience is that rendering pictures in 16:9 format can add to the
"impact" a picture makes. This can be simply done by changing the camera
object where the aspect ratio is normaly 5/4. Just change it to 16/9 and
change the rendering size to 16:9 or a multiple of that: 160:90,
320:180, 640:360, etc.

Between words: widescreen motion pictures use 2.35:1 I never used it
however. Maybe someone can posts some examples here.

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Just for fun, here are some common 16:9 w/h values


 16x9 image formats

 Landscape     Portrait

 Width  Height Width Height

 160    90     160   284

 320    180    320   569

 512    288    512   910

 640    360    640   1138

 800    450    800   1422

 1024   576    1024  1820

 1280   720    1280  2276

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Ok, 1 step further... heres Quickres169.ini




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"A. Jans-Beken" wrote:

> Just a tip :-)
>
> My experience is that rendering pictures in 16:9 format can add to the
> "impact" a picture makes. This can be simply done by changing the camera
> object where the aspect ratio is normaly 5/4. Just change it to 16/9 and
> change the rendering size to 16:9 or a multiple of that: 160:90,
> 320:180, 640:360, etc.
>
> Between words: widescreen motion pictures use 2.35:1 I never used it
> however. Maybe someone can posts some examples here.

Yep. Actually I think 16:9 is wide, 2.35:1 is "cinema". Or at least in the
Goldeneye video options. :)
The default is actually 4:3, not 5:4.
Other good ratios are tau (~1.618:1), the golden ratio, 2.5:1, panoramic?,
and 4:5.

Gilles Tran has some great renders at 2.5:1,
http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/gtran.en.html
I have a render in tau, a render in 5:4 (vertical 4:5), and the mc escher
gallery is square, http://davidf.faricy.net/raygall.html

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David Fontaine wrote:
> 
> Yep. Actually I think 16:9 is wide, 2.35:1 is "cinema". Or at least in the
> Goldeneye video options. :)
> The default is actually 4:3, not 5:4.
> Other good ratios are tau (~1.618:1), the golden ratio, 2.5:1, panoramic?,
> and 4:5.

I thought the golden ratio was ~1.618:1 ....

Unless I'm not reading the above sentence properly.

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Francois Labreque wrote:

> > Other good ratios are tau (~1.618:1), the golden ratio, 2.5:1, panoramic?,
> > and 4:5.
>
> I thought the golden ratio was ~1.618:1 ....
>
> Unless I'm not reading the above sentence properly.

Yes it is. I should have made the commas after ratio and panoramic semicolons
probably. Not like they teach this kind of stuff in school anymore. ;-)

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> This can be simply done by changing the camera
> object where the aspect ratio is normaly 5/4.

I think you mean 4:3, technically speaking 4:3 is considered
widescreen as eary filmaking was done in that ratio. Citizen Kane
was done that way.

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A. Jans-Beken <jan### [at] wxsnl> wrote in message
news:3A6763EB.FE4B0B75@wxs.nl...
> Just a tip :-)
>
> My experience is that rendering pictures in 16:9 format can add to the
> "impact" a picture makes. This can be simply done by changing the camera
> object where the aspect ratio is normaly 5/4. Just change it to 16/9 and
> change the rendering size to 16:9 or a multiple of that: 160:90,
> 320:180, 640:360, etc.
>
> Between words: widescreen motion pictures use 2.35:1 I never used it
> however. Maybe someone can posts some examples here.
>
>

Some of my posts are 2.35:1.

If you want an interesting read about Widescreen Cinema, a bloke named John
Belton wrote a book of that name, full of tales of odd film formats with
even odder names - Magnascope, Veriscope, Anamorphoscope, Cinerama,
CinemaScope, CinemaScope 55, Todd-AO, Viventoscope, Polyvision, Grandeur,
Natural Vision, Realife, Imax, Omnimax, Circarama, Ultra Panavision,
VistaVision, Panavision, and WarnerSuperScope (which never got past the
drawing board - which is a shame as it's such a great name!).

And then there's letterboxing, pan-and-scan (or pan-and-scandal), anamorphic
lenses/projection, curved screens...

I feel a headache coming on.

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A. Jans-Beken,
Can you repost that quickres file?

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"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
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> "A. Jans-Beken" wrote:
>
> > Just a tip :-)
> >
> > My experience is that rendering pictures in 16:9 format can add to the
> > "impact" a picture makes. This can be simply done by changing the camera
> > object where the aspect ratio is normaly 5/4. Just change it to 16/9 and
> > change the rendering size to 16:9 or a multiple of that: 160:90,
> > 320:180, 640:360, etc.
> >
> > Between words: widescreen motion pictures use 2.35:1 I never used it
> > however. Maybe someone can posts some examples here.
>
> Yep. Actually I think 16:9 is wide, 2.35:1 is "cinema". Or at least in the
> Goldeneye video options. :)
> The default is actually 4:3, not 5:4.
> Other good ratios are tau (~1.618:1), the golden ratio, 2.5:1, panoramic?,
> and 4:5.
>
> Gilles Tran has some great renders at 2.5:1,
> http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/gtran.en.html
> I have a render in tau, a render in 5:4 (vertical 4:5), and the mc escher
> gallery is square, http://davidf.faricy.net/raygall.html
>
> --
> David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
> My raytracing gallery:  http://davidf.faricy.net/
>
>

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Ok, BUT I have 1 warning:

Whenever I get a raytrace that comes out really well, I like to make it my
wallpaper.  It does not work for 16:9 images.  well, not 'stretched' anyways.

Here is my std 16:9 Camera.  Add it to your Insert Menu.

// std 16:9 Camera (for landscapes)
camera{
  location  <0, 0, -10>
  direction 1.5*z
  right     16/9*x
  look_at   <0.0, 0.0,  0.0>
}


"C.J." wrote:

> A. Jans-Beken,
> Can you repost that quickres file?

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