[vtkusers] Documentation mistake in vtkCamera

David Doria daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 11:29:10 EST 2010


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM, xabi riobe <xabivtk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to notice that there is a mistake in the documentation of
> vtkCamera::Elevation (both 5.4 and nightly)
>
> it states that:
> "Rotate the camera about the cross product of the direction of projection
> and the view up vector centered on the focal point."
>
> but in the cxx file it is correct:
> "Rotate the camera about the cross product of *the negative of *the
> direction of projection and the view up vector centered on the focal point."
>
> we can replace "*the negative of** *the direction of projection" by "the
> view plane normal".
>
>
I've never looked into this class so I can't help. But maybe someone else
can take a second to verify this? We shouldn't let good suggestions like
this get looked over!

Thanks,

David
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