>> Heh. You know, all I was *actually* trying to find out in the first 
>> place is whether the reflections on a coloured surface are themselves 
>> coloured.
> 
> This is just something I ran across somewhere without actually 
> researching, but I understood that the difference between a "metallic" 
> reflection and a "non-metallic" reflection is whether the reflection 
> still has colors. I.e., a reflection off a surface that looks metallic 
> will reflect at least some of the colors, while a reflection off (say) 
> plastic will be various shades of the color of the plastic itself.  
> (Isn't this what the "metallic" keyword in POV-ray does too?)

Actually the "metallic" keyword affects surface hilights only.

Which leads to another question: Do surface hilights really exist? Or 
are they just reflections of the shape of the light source?

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