POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : 35mm Camera Macro : Re: 35mm Camera Macro Server Time
1 Aug 2024 06:20:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 35mm Camera Macro  
From: triple r
Date: 26 Feb 2009 20:40:00
Message: <web.49a743f555a0132e63a1b7c30@news.povray.org>
"Edouard Poor" <pov### [at] edouardinfo> wrote:
> I agree with Ricky - while the POV focal blur system has it's flaws, I think it
> gets the actual blur amount in front of and behind the focal plane correct.

I have to confess that this comes from experience.  I actually wrote a raytracer
once to simulate the projection of a scene onto a piece of film with a thin
lens.  Once I completed this, I realized it was entirely equivalent to
POV-Ray's simplified model.

 - Ricky


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