Mike Raiford wrote:

> They are, sort of. In the real world, highlights would be caused by very 
> fine irregularities on the surface. which will invariably reflect some 
> of the light from the light source to your eye. What you see, then is a 
> diffused reflection of the object's surroundings. Some of which may 
> actually be a light source.
> 
> Highlights as POV-Ray defines them is a sort of short cut.

Right. This is basically what I thought. ;-)

Doesn't that mean that, in the real world, the hilights should be the 
shape of whatever luminous object is creating them? (The real world 
doesn't have point-lights.)

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