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| (...) No, Bram is 100% correct -- the resulting image is distorted unless I account for the proportions of the image POV expects to render. -- Hop-Frog (24 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| "Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:000001c188be$d8...1681@bl... (...) Good point. Since I've never tried to render a square image, I've never run across this. I'm curious though, why do you need to do this? I figured it would be (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| (...) You may want to make it 6400x4800 or 4800x3600 so that the render isn't distorted. If you want a square picture, you will need to modify the camera object so that it renders to a square aspect ratio. Millions of pixels also take a while to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| (...) I may still be confused slightly. From that article I gather that no printer (professional printing device) cares about anything above 200 LPI. The article further claims that one would generally want to print from an image 2 times the desired (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| Steve, I can explain better using black and white printers; for color, just add four times the explanation. For a monochrome printer, there is a tradeoff between lpi and grayscales. If you have a 600 dpi printer, and you chose a 600 lpi screen, you (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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