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  Re: The Orthographic Decapitation  
From: gregjohn
Date: 17 Dec 2012 10:25:01
Message: <web.50cf38e4b526f522ae3cb5160@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 17.12.2012 13:54, schrieb gregjohn:
> > May I say that this whole thread supports my claim that the camera docs, notably
> > the diagram, don't explain what it the orthographic camera does?  I presume
> > everyone posting in this thread has in fact RTFM.
>
> The diagram indeed only explains the standard perspective camera.

Okay, so the community (if not me) should cough up a diagram that explains
exactly what orthographic is up to.

But even the standard camera doc/diagram piles on both critically needed
parameters, and I-guess-if-you-need-to-specify-it-that-way parameters, without
explaining how the redundant ones interact with the critical ones or which order
is critical,   into one big pile.
up / right/ angle/ position/ look_at, etc.


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