Talk:Virtual camera

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This article was nominated for deletion on 2005 October 12. The result of the discussion was keep. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

I cannot see any further grammatical or confusion errors on this page. Should I leave the tag for cleanup there, or remove it?

--Phil 21:30, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I've put the cleanup tag back on this page. I tried to clean it up a bit myself, but didn't even know where to start. Here are some of the problems:

• The article needs to start with a definition of what a virtual camera is. Saying that it "is more or less what it says on the surface", or is a "camera which is virtual" doesn't count.
• The article needs to be less conversational. Phrases like "There are two really good examples" don't seem appropriate for an encyclopedia.
• The numbering of the sections isn't Wikipedia style, and it very strange (L comes after A and B?)

Pburka 03:11, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Also, is the the bullet time example even a virtual camera? Those look like good old physical cameras to me. Pburka 03:13, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

They are virtual because they are behaving like something they are not, and taking images where something will be removed or added. Hence, the effect they give is virtual, thus they are called virtual cameras.

I will write a new definition of Virtual Camera.

As for the numbering system, I was under the impression that it was conventional. As for the "L", that is in fact an "I", as in the roman numeral convention so you would have "Western standard number"/"letter"/"roman numeral" to break things into subcategories.

--Phil 12:33, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I see now. You shouldn't number the sections manually. Wikipedia does this automatically. If you number them manually the table of contents at the top looks strange (1 1, 2 2, etc.). Pburka 15:47, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:59, 13 February 2008 (UTC)