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

[Michael Zingale]

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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