POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Removing keyword "hollow" from pov3.5 or 4 : Re: Removing keyword "hollow" from pov3.5 or 4 Server Time
10 Aug 2024 17:26:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Removing keyword "hollow" from pov3.5 or 4  
From: Nieminen Juha
Date: 15 Nov 1999 06:48:29
Message: <382ff30d@news.povray.org>
Charles <cfu### [at] enternet> wrote:
: I would 
: also add, though, that I never understood why the default was to
: NOT accept media unless a keyword was added. 

  Usually fog doesn't go inside objects. That's why.

: With that in mind, I would propose that what is now known as 
: "hollow" become the default condition of all objects, and that 
: a replacement keyword "no_media" be added, being to media what
: "no_shadow" is to shadows.

  Note that it also affects fog.

  There might be situations where you want media inside an object but not
fog (or other medias). Perhaps there should be more keywords to specify
these kind of things, as someone already suggested.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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