Reputation: 101
I am using pyvista
to produce a gif animation. My object is a square [0,10]×[0,10] located on the xy-plane (z-coordinate = 0).
I want to set the camera position to the center of the square which is (5,5,0) when viewed from above. I used the following code:
plotter.camera.position = [5.0, 5.0, 25]
plotter.camera.focal_point = [5.0, 5.0, 0]
plotter.camera.roll += 90
However, the square becomes completely invisible. No matter how I use the mouse to reorient in the preview environment, I can not find the object at all.
Then I just changed it a little bit by
plotter.camera.focal_point = [4.999, 5.0, 0]
Then it appears. It seems that as long as camera.position
and camera.focal_point
have equal x- and y-coordinates (z-coordinates don't matter), the object always becomes invisible.
But, I would like to know what is going on here and understand how pyvista.camera
works.
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