3.2.2 Language Directives

POV-Ray 3.6 for UNIX documentation 3.3 Scene Settings

3.3.1 Camera

3.3 Scene Settings

Section Contents

• 3.3.1 Camera
  • 3.3.1.1 Placing the Camera
    • 3.3.1.1.1 Location and Look_At
    • 3.3.1.1.2 The Sky Vector
    • 3.3.1.1.3 Angles
    • 3.3.1.1.4 The Direction Vector
    • 3.3.1.1.5 Up and Right Vectors
    • 3.3.1.1.6 Aspect Ratio
    • 3.3.1.1.7 Handedness
    • 3.3.1.1.8 Transforming the Camera
  • 3.3.1.2 Types of Projection
    • 3.3.1.2.1 Perspective projection
    • 3.3.1.2.2 Orthographic projection
    • 3.3.1.2.3 Fisheye projection
    • 3.3.1.2.4 Ultra wide angle projection
    • 3.3.1.2.5 Omnimax projection
    • 3.3.1.2.6 Panoramic projection
    • 3.3.1.2.7 Cylindrical projection
    • 3.3.1.2.8 Spherical projection
  • 3.3.1.3 Focal Blur
  • 3.3.1.4 Camera Ray Perturbation
  • 3.3.1.5 Camera Identifiers
• 3.3.2 Atmospheric Effects
  • 3.3.2.1 Atmospheric Media
  • 3.3.2.2 Background
  • 3.3.2.3 Fog
  • 3.3.2.4 Sky Sphere
  • 3.3.2.5 Rainbow
• 3.3.3 Global Settings
  • 3.3.3.1 ADC_Bailout
  • 3.3.3.2 Ambient_Light
  • 3.3.3.3 Assumed_Gamma
    • 3.3.3.3.1 Monitor Gamma
    • 3.3.3.3.2 Image File Gamma
    • 3.3.3.3.3 Scene File Gamma
  • 3.3.3.4 HF_Gray_16
  • 3.3.3.5 Irid_Wavelength
  • 3.3.3.6 Charset
  • 3.3.3.7 Max_Trace_Level
  • 3.3.3.8 Max_Intersections
  • 3.3.3.9 Number_Of_Waves
  • 3.3.3.10 Noise_generator
  • 3.3.3.11 Radiosity Basics
• 3.3.4 Radiosity
  • 3.3.4.1 How Radiosity Works
  • 3.3.4.2 Adjusting Radiosity
    • 3.3.4.2.1 radiosity adc_bailout
    • 3.3.4.2.2 always_sample
    • 3.3.4.2.3 brightness
    • 3.3.4.2.4 count
    • 3.3.4.2.5 error_bound
    • 3.3.4.2.6 gray_threshold
    • 3.3.4.2.7 low_error_factor
    • 3.3.4.2.8 max_sample
    • 3.3.4.2.9 Media and Radiosity
    • 3.3.4.2.10 minimum_reuse
    • 3.3.4.2.11 nearest_count
    • 3.3.4.2.12 Normal and Radiosity
    • 3.3.4.2.13 Pretrace
    • 3.3.4.2.14 recursion_limit
    • 3.3.4.2.15 Save and load radiosity data
  • 3.3.4.3 Tips on Radiosity

3.2.2 Language Directives

3.3 Scene Settings

3.3.1 Camera