RE: [Visualpython-users] controlling zooming

Thanks for your help!

Attached is the kind of image I'm working on (its the decimal system
visualized).

Is there a way of adjusting the foreshortening?  When I zoom closer to the
nearest point (the 0) it disappears (perhaps I'm too close to the camera).
I'd like to see more of the single-digit integers and be able to see detail
a few orders of magnitude further.

I think if I could have the camera "way back"  but telescope in to the
object of interest, the foreshortening would be reduced..?


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vis...@li...
> [mailto:vis...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Bruce Sherwood
> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 8:20 PM
> To: vis...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] controlling zooming
>
>
> Jon Schull is correct; there is something wrong with autoscaling when
> scene.forward is not along z. Thanks for reporting this. The autoscaling
> seems to be based on the view seen with the default scene.forward rather
> than the actual scene.forward.
>
> The other problem he reported, "When I fiddle with scene.range, the image
> gets dim as if the lights have been turned down," was basically due to the
> fact that the blocks lie along the z axis and so only the single
> front face
> is directly illuminated. The color problem was compounded by setting RGB
> values to a maximum of 255 rather than 1, which gives strange results. The
> version of the program below resets the RGB values to be within the valid
> parameter range. One might also change the direction of the
> lighting so that
> the side faces of the blocks are directly illuminated. (When running the
> program, click to advance.)
>
> from visual import *
>
> ##"jon schull" <js...@so...>
> ##This program builds blocks out into space correctly, but it
> automatically
> ##"zooms" way out (too far out) about midway through.
>
> c=[]
> def init():
>     for i in range(10):
>         c.append((0,0,0))
>
>     c[0]=[255,255,255]
>     c[1]=[255,153,51]
>     c[2]=[102,102,153]
>     c[3]=[255,0,102]
>     c[4]=[102,102,153]
>     c[5]=[255,102,0]
>     c[6]=[128,0,128]
>     c[7]=[255,255,0]
>     c[8]=[51,51,153]
>     c[9]=[255,0,102]
>
>     for i in range(10):
>         for j in range(3):
>             c[i][j] = c[i][j]/255.0
>
> for each in c:
>     for i in (0,1,2):
>         each[i]=each[i]/255.
> scene.forward=[0.5,-0.5,-1]
> scene.range=10 ## added to avoid the autoscaling problem
>
> init()
>
> def tenblocks(firstblock=0):
>     for i in range(10):
>         b = box(color=c[i],pos=(0,0,-firstblock + 10 -i))
>     scene.mouse.getclick()
>
> def ShowUpTo(Number=50):
>     Tens=Number/10
>     for i in range(Tens):
>         tenblocks(firstblock=i*10)
>
> ShowUpTo(Number=100)
>
>
>
>
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