RE: [Visualpython-users] Patch for limiting zoom in vpython

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

Right. Got it. Makes sense.

--On Monday, November 20, 2000, 8:52 AM -0500 David Scherer
<dsc...@CM...> wrote:

> Definitely not!  To make any sense of the camera position you need to know
> horrible things like the field of view angle and the aspect ratio of the
> window, not to mention some trig.  Normally you control scale with
> scene.range, right?
> 
> sphere(radius = 50)
> scene.range = 50
> 
>> I'm not sure I understand what the
>> significance
>> would be of minimum and maximum ranges, which sound like cubes or boxes
>> to me.
> 
> These would place limits on how small or large the *effective* scene.range
> could get in response to manual control.