Seems to me Vue (at least Vue 5i) simulates a 35mm film plane and lenses pretty well.

Here are 3 illustrations from my upcoming eBook for digital artists, done with Vue 5i:

Beginners in photography often think of "non-normal" lenses as causing distortion, but they don't. They just take a different sized hunk out of the world than we are used to, at the typical viewing distance of the photo.
For instance, a very wide angle panorama print looks normal if you move it very close to your eyes and wrap it around your head.
Oh! forgot to mention that the block above is 4X deeper than wide or tall.

HTH
Art Head Start

Message edited on: 09/24/2005 20:21