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Maybe someone can point me in the right direction...
I have an object with a known bounding box, how do I calculate the position
of the camera so that the whole object is shown on a screen of known
dimentions? In other words, how to I determine the amount I should the
camera away from the object so that the entire object is shown in the viewport?
-Orion
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| (...) Hi Orion, The law of similar triangles comes to mind...... not that I consider myself much of a mathemetician. Pick an aribitrary camera distance greater than zero and calculate the size of the bounding box projected into a 2D plane (the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| (...) This document describes a method of scaling to fit a bounding sphere into a viewport, starting somewhere around page 30. (URL) would think you'd have to pick a camera angle first, or fix one of the other variables like the distance to the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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