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28 Sep 2024 10:57:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reflection bug? (fix?)  
From: =Bob
Date: 1 Dec 1998 17:53:53
Message: <36647381.0@news.povray.org>
Say, uh, Nathan?
You may not like what I'm about to say after all the work you've put into that 
reflection bug-fix there, but... well, um, you see it's like this.
If the 'inverse' keyword is put at the end of a texture statement containing a 
reflection finish, there is no problem. The reflection works as it should, 
same as what your fixed code does apparently.
I knew there was something amiss about this thing too though after someone 
(Buk### [at] aolcom) mentioned "missing" reflection when 3.1 was being beta'd.
I don't understand why it would work this way. Seems obvious the correct way 
would be *without* the keyword inverse, and used if you wanted a change from 
default. Sounds about right huh?
So, maybe it should still be called a bug of sorts.

Message <366413CF.67C36788@Kopp.com>, Nathan Kopp  typed...
>
>I posted a modified version of this code which (makes the bug obvious) in the
>povray.text.scene-files group. Rendered images from that file can be found in
>povray.binaries.images.
>
>-Nathan

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