David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
>   My point is that it should be possible to define a sphere or a plane 
> in the SDL.

  It is, using an isosurface or a poly object.

> But keep the ability for the SDL to define new shapes, new textures, new 
> light sources, etc.

  A shader language is one of the ideas for pov4. It's not mutually
exclusive with existing textures.

> BTW, I implemented a quick raytracer in Smalltalk and rendered a simple 
> scene only 5 times slower than POVRay

  It's relatively easy to make a raytracer in any language which renders
a *simple* scene in a comparable time. However, put for example 100000
spheres in that scene and them compare. ;)

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                                                          - Warp

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