In article <pan### [at] uwaterlooca> , Andrew Clinton 
<ajc### [at] uwaterlooca>  wrote:

> While we are complaining about media... I was also trying to make some
> modifications to the media code to permit varying the lists of media that
> are considered at run-time (for example, to use an bounding hierarchy to
> limit the media that need to be sampled).  However, to do this would
> require changing tons of the code that has explicit dependence on the
> "array of linked list" of media objects, making it nearly impossible to
> make the change without in depth knowledge of how all the media code is
> working.  If this code is rewritten, it would be SO much easier if this
> were better abstracted (use of an object to represent media lists).  From
> what I can tell, same goes for a lot of the other code in media (or
> POV-Ray for that matter, at least the bounding and object related stuff
> I've looked at)

Well, all this is no news at all! - Obviously there is a reason why POV-Ray
4.0 is going to be a rewrite... :-)

    Thorsten

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