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

[John Wise]

If the speed is the same, then I'm in favor of switching the default to 
perspective.

Thanks,
John

On 03/07/2016 09:50 PM, Nathan Goldbaum 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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John Wise
Associate Professor of Physics
Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Tech
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