> How can the program magnify a single view, or a view platform, as if a
> telescope were used?
Change the field of view on the View. A small field of view == a telescope, a
large field of view == a fisheye lens.
> In a possibly related question, what do the scale components of the
> ViewingPlatform transform mean?
Two other ways of changing the scaling of a scene are to use a scaling transform
above the object, making the object bigger or smaller in VWorld coords; or to
use a scaling transform above the ViewPlatform, making the virtual observer
bigger or smaller in VWorld coords. Note that changes to to the local to VWorld
transform for the ViewPlatform have the opposite effect as changing the tranform
on the object: scaling by 1/10 on the ViewPlatform makes the object appear 10x
bigger.
Doug Gehringer
Sun Microsystems
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