[vtkusers] Documentation mistake in vtkCamera

[xabi riobe]

Thank you David G for the fix, and David D to bring the attention to the
post.
John you are right, it was the same issue you posted, I didn't find it with
a quick search....

2010/2/12 David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>

> 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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