Tony[B] <ben### [at] catholicorg> wrote:
: Blurred reflections and transparency:-  see MegaPOV and Chris Huff's work

  If I have understood it correctly, I think that the idea behind the decision
that they were not included in 3.5 is that they are too specific. By this
I mean that the goal for pov4 is to create some generic way of defining
surface properties which allows, among other things, to create blurred
reflection/refraction effects defined by the user. That is, you don't tell
povray to use blurred reflection with a keyword, but instead there's a more
generic way of doing it so that the end result is the same (but you can also
make much more with it).

: Non-linear transformations
: displacement-mapping:-  http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/displace/

  I suppose these would require tesselation.

: Efficient Rendering of Scenes with Many Objects (Like Plants):-

  What would be more efficient than using meshes?

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