🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.sgi.graphics
Article #135

Re: Orthographic Proj + PolarView

#135
From: Terran Boylan
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:34
15 lines
1306 bytes
In article <REZNIK.93Jan25154256@robios2.me.wisc.edu>, reznik@robios.me.wisc.edu (Dan S Reznik) writes:
> I am having difficulties making anything appear on the screen when I
> combine ortho() with polarview(). if instead of ortho() I use
> perspective() everything works fine. Specifically, I am trying to view
> a cubical array of voxel centered around (0,0,0). For that I do
> 
>    ortho(-A, A, -A, A, -A, A); /* A is bigger than the volume's radius */
                         ^^^^^
You need to swap these two.  Yeah, I lost a good 4-5 hours one night on this one.
Read the man page for an explanation.

---
Terran J. Boylan, Sr. Artist/Programmer | "It's better to have loved
Engineering Animation, Inc.,  Ames, IA  | and lost than just to have
(515) 296-9908 / (515) 296-7934 (> 5PM) | lost." -- Dorky Dog
Technical Details
Message-ID: <C1Ftp9.LsH@news.iastate.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!pi.eai.iastate.edu!boylan
References: <REZNIK.93Jan25154256@robios2.me.wisc.edu>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.graphics
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!pi.eai.iastate.edu!boylan
From: boylan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Terran Boylan)
Subject: Re: Orthographic Proj + PolarView
Message-ID: <C1Ftp9.LsH@news.iastate.edu>
Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Engineering Animation, Inc.
References:  <REZNIK.93Jan25154256@robios2.me.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:34:18 GMT
Lines: 15