Exploring Different Cameras

You may have noticed that we call our camera a PerspectiveCamera. If that name seems oddly specific, that’s because other kinds of cameras exist. For the most part, we want to stick with perspective cameras in 3D coding. Let’s have a look at what a perspective camera is and compare it to another kind of camera that’s sometimes used as well.

A Quick Peek at a Weirdly Named Camera

The other kind of camera is called orthographic. To understand what an orthographic camera does, let’s add a red road that the purple fruit monster can travel on. Add the following after START CODING ON THE NEXT LINE:

​ ​var​ shape = ​new​ THREE.CubeGeometry(200, 1000, 10);
​ ​var​ cover = ​new​ THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({color:​ ...

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