vincebagna opened this issue on Dec 09, 2009 · 48 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 16 December 2009 at 5:21 PM
Quote - You're right...I don't :)
I'm guessing it doesn't matter what size the sphere is...
Correct. When you make the sphere bigger, the pixels get bigger physically in the world, but they move farther away. The two effects cancel out exactly.
Similarly, if you shrink the sphere, the pixels get closer together physically, but they also move closer to the camera which enlarges them again exactly in proportion.
How many panorama pixels you see in the render is almost completely unaffected by the size of the sphere. All that matters is the focal length. And then if you render bigger, you simply grow those pixels.
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