On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 16:08:45 +0100, Thomas wrote:
>I know that I get that because the camera is pointing upwards. But in
>real life there are lenses available that can be shifted a bit ( I have
>no clue what the official name for this is) so that this doesn't happen,
>are there any ways that this can be simulated in pov or are there any
>other ways around this?

You might be able to get the desired effect by messing with the right, up,
and direction vectors so they're not perpendicular.  POV will give you
a warning, and will give you an error if you don't specify -UV on the
command line (or in the INI file) but it should still work.  Something like
this:

camera {location 10*z right 4*x up 3*y direction y-.5*z}

is what I envision.  Basically, you're saying the film plane is parallel
to the XY plane, but the camera is pointed slightly upward.  It's like moving
the lens on an old-style view camera without moving the film plane.

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