[vtkusers] Documentation mistake in vtkCamera

[David Gobbi]

Since there are no other takers, I've fixed the documentation.  I also
fixed the Dolly documentation and tried to make a few other bits
more readable.

   David


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, John Platt <jcplatt at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This has been noted previously
> http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtk-developers/2005-July/003416.html
>
> Perhaps this is the independent verification required?
>
> HTH
>
> John.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Doria
> Cc: VTK Users
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 4:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Documentation mistake in vtkCamera
> 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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