Hi Tom, I don't believe it matters, except for displaying stuff in tksurfer.
Bruce On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tom Holroyd wrote: > Hi. I converted some genesis I.??? files off a GE scanner and the > COR-.info file had a fov of 0. Everything else was OK but the surface > coordinates came out strange and the surface was sort of "inside out". > > I set fov to .256 by hand, and everything came out OK. Then I realized > that was wrong, and set it to .240, but the generated surface was > identical, though the viewer showed a slight change in the default size. > > Does fov matter for anything? Maybe it only affects the viewer? > > Dr. Tom Holroyd > "I am, as I said, inspired by the biological phenomena in which > chemical forces are used in repetitious fashion to produce all > kinds of weird effects (one of which is the author)." > -- Richard Feynman, _There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom_ >
