[yt-dev] Make the default camera lens the perspective lens

Sam Skillman samskillman at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 22:29:55 PST 2016


If it is similar in performance (serial and parallel),

1) well done!
2) definitely in favor of switching

Cheers,
Sam

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016, 8:29 PM Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe the perspective camera is the most intuitive, and if the speed
> is similar to the plane-parallel lens as suggested, I am all for switching
> the defaults.  But it may mean we need to tweak some of the cookbook
> recipes because many of them were made with the plane parallel lens in mind.
>
> Cameron
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Michael Zingale <
> michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>
>> I think that it makes sense to make perspective the default -- that's
>> what most other vis packages seem to default to.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm curious what people think about switching the default camera lens
>>> from "plane-parallel" to "perspective".
>>>
>>> Perspective cameras are more intuitive - it makes sense to talk about a
>>> camera position and orientation, since all the rays originate from a single
>>> point.
>>>
>>> The last time this came up, the major concern was that perspective
>>> renders were not as performant as plane-parallel renders.
>>>
>>> Today Kacper submitted a PR that substantially improves the performance
>>> of the perspective camera:
>>>
>>> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-requests/2028/
>>>
>>> If we benchmark and find that the plane-parallel camera is competitive
>>> with the plane-parallel camera in terms of speed, would it be ok to switch
>>> to perspective for the default camera?
>>>
>>> -Nathan
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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