Ron Parker wrote:

> Math uses the right-hand rule too.  POV uses the left-hand rule by
> default because that's how it was created.  Call it a historical 
> accident.  To change it now would just be wrong.

   Hmmm... I don't think on it as an accident. Tim has really given the 
answer with the question: CAD programs were done for designers, people 
that thinks on floorplans with implicit x-y axis. But which was the 
public POV-Ray was created for? IMHO, this is the key...

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Jaime Vives Piqueres

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