Working with cameras

The creation of an interactive rendering, or a video, involves the specification of the position and orientation of a "camera" representing your point of view. 
Brainrender provides a number of pre-defined cameras that can be used (e.g. sagittal or frontal). If you wish to use any of these cameras just pass the corresponding name to Scene.render (e.g. scene.render(camera='frontal')). render also takes a zoom parameter which specifies the camera's zoon.
You can, however, create a custom camera for your needs by specifying a set of camera parameters and pass that (as a dictionary) to scene.render. To get the parameters you need, the simplest thing is to render your scene with any old camera, move the scene to get the point of view you need and press c on your keyboard. This will print out the current camera parameters. You can then close your scene and copy-paste the camera parameters in your code. The next time you render your scene it will use your parameters!
The parameters used to specify a camera include:
pos: a set of 3D coordinate specifying the position of the camera
viewup: a 3d vector indicating the direction of "up" in your scene (should always be 0, -1, 0).
clippingRange: a set of a short and long distance, anything outside this range will not be render
additional parameters (not generally needed):
focalPoint specifies the 'focal point' of the camera
distance the camera's distance.
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