> On 4 Dec 2018, at 19:54, Alan Braslau <braslau.l...@comcast.net> wrote: > > 2) to generalize the notion of user data space from the > two-dimensional drawing space of MetaPost (and the represented page), > and affine transformations of this 2D space to other coordinate > systems and dimensions. We are not thinking about 3D rendering or > raytracing, but rather simple projections and other transformations > such as polar coordinates. (Of course, log scales, for example are a > "simple" non-linear transformation.)
On this note: I would like to have an ‘official’ way to map 3D coordinates to 2D coordinates with for a camera position with an orthogonal window. Not the most complicated thing in the world, but it would be nice if metafun had an ‘official’ way of setting up a scene. Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
