"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> In article <3921b9fc@news.povray.org>, "AC" <amb### [at] teliacom> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone here thought that  it could  be practical to have some kind
of
> > vector format for a finish?
> >
> > Example:
> > #declare Mirror = finish {ambient 0  diffuse 0 reflection 1}
> > could be
> > #declare Mirror= finish{ adr<0,0,1>}
>
> This would be very bad for readability and maintainability, and all it
> would do is save a bit of typing. And your syntax limits you to float
> parameters...all three of those can take colors.

Intresting, I did not know that :)

> And what about   specular, angle dependant reflection, etc?
>

This was only a general idea of how it could be done, I expected that there
would be problems  scince there are more keywords than those three.

Thanks for your input.
Ambis

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