Warp wrote:
 > POV-Ray can make perfectly parabolic mirrors and reflect light from
 > them. It's far from impossible.

Well, I think it's *nearly* impossible to simulate optical instruments 
like telescopes with POV-Ray. Of course you could place the camera at 
the focal-point of the lens or mirror and get the magnification effect, 
but you can't simulate other effects.

For example, I once tried to simulate how saturn would look if being 
viewed through a telescope with different mirror-diameters (the larger 
the mirror, the sharper the picture) - but it didn't work. If anybody 
has ever managed to simulate such things with POV-Ray I'd be interested...

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