Charlie Groh wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:37:22 -0500, "dadiOH"
wrote:

jzfredricks wrote:
hi all

I hope it's ok posting this question here - it's a bit of
woodworking and a bit cabinet making!

Please see this image;
http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/n...nt=cabinet.jpg

It's not the best, but hopefully it's enough. I'm thinking of making
something like this, and one thing that I can't quite work out is
how the hinges work.

If you look closely, you'll see the doors aren't perpendicular to
the base, but rather are on a slight angle.

Are you sure of that? Have you actually seen the object?

More likely is that the object is distorted in the photo because the
top is closer to the camera than the bottom; that makes the sides
*look* tapered.

...bingo, give the man a ceeeeegar. I'm getting into architectural
photography and one of the *big* deals is converging lines...how to
*not* get converging lines is a tough...and expensive...nut

FWIW, depending on your standards and intended market, it doesn't have to be
all that expensive. Any decent photo editor can correct that sort of
distortion, at the sacrifice of some pixels and a bit of genloss.

Another option is to use an extreme wide angle held level and then crop out
the bottom half of the picture--that if you maintain original aspect ratio
costs you 3/4 of your pixels though--that might be fine though for small
prints.

The "right" but expensive way to do it is a lens with shifts.

(I believe
Robotoy found one of the same doors that got close, but you'll notice
it still isn't quite correct). If you want to swing doors off of
jambs that are not plumb with doors shaped to match, and french no
less, well, buckle up. Best idea I've seen is to "pocket" them and
even that would be funky, imagine the jamb sides when the doors are in
the open position. Now, a paralellogram-shaped opening...heh...


cg