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Re: Question about LPub PLIs
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Tue, 7 Oct 2003 02:50:27 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Joel Hoornbeek wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad, Joel Hoornbeek wrote:
> > > In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok, I've saved the first POV file that was generated.  Here is the camera
> section of the code; I had specified a minimum distance of 75000:
> 
> // Camera (Latitude,Longitude,Radius = 0,0,0)
> camera {
>  #declare PCT = 0; // Percentage further away
>  #declare STEREO = 0; // Normal view
>  //#declare STEREO =  degrees(atan2(1,12))/2; // Left view
>  //#declare STEREO = -degrees(atan2(1,12))/2; // Right view
>  location vaxis_rotate(<0,2.55207,-51858.9> + PCT/100.0*<0,0,-51858.9>,
>                        <0,-2.68935e+009,0>,STEREO)

I would have thought that the <0,2.55207,-51858.9> was the camera distance,
but taking the square root of the squares of these numbers is less than 75000,
so I would have expected it to be 75000.

Are you using mega-pov?  Someone reported that mega-pov was broken in this area.

Kevin

>  sky      -y
>  right    -4/3*x
>  look_at  <0,2.55207,0> // calculated
>  angle    1
>  rotate   <0,1e-5,0> // Prevent gap between adjecent quads
>  //orthographic
> }
> 
> Unfortunately, nothing jumps out at me as being related to the minumum distance,
> but that may just be my ignorance of the POV syntax.
> For now, I'll keep going with trial and error to get the distance right.  Of
> course, if you have any other suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.
> 
> -Joel



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Question about LPub PLIs
 
(...) <snip> Yes, I'm using POV-Ray 3.1 with MegaPOV 0.7. -Joel P.S. Thanks for your very quick responses to my posts! (23 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad)
  Another question about LPub PLIs
 
<snip> Hello again, I've come up with something else that I thought I'd mention. I ran my file through LPub last night, with the minimum distance for the steps set at 100000 (which, by the way, seems to be about what I need to fix my scale (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Question about LPub PLIs
 
(...) Ok, I've saved the first POV file that was generated. Here is the camera section of the code; I had specified a minimum distance of 75000: // Camera (Latitude,Longitude,Radius = 0,0,0) camera { #declare PCT = 0; // Percentage further away (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad)

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