I have wanted a similar feature, I envisioned it as an image map created by a
different camera in the same scene, but it was a bit of a headache and caused
nasty recursions when I thought about it.

Josh

Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <3A6755CD.920FCBDB@simberon.com>, David Buck
> <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
>
> > Hi all.  I just found this newsgroup recently and I'm amazed at all the
> > traffic on it.  It seems that POV-Ray has come a long way form it's
> > humble beginnings back in '85 or so.  I'm the author of DKBTrace which,
> > you may know, is the predecessor of POV-Ray.  I offered the DKBTrace
> > source to the POV-Ray team as a base system and I served on the POV-Ray
> > team for about two years.
> >
> > What exciting things are happening these days in the POV-Ray world?  I'm
> > seeing some amazing things posted on the net.
>
> Well, probably the first would be MegaPOV, which contains most of the
> third party patches people have written:
> http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm
>
> Some of the more interesting things: isosurfaces described by functions
> you specify in the scene file, photon mapping for realistic refractive
> and reflective caustics, angle-dependant reflection...
>
> A page with demo images of most of the patches is here:
> http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh/demo.html
>
> There are also patches for object tesselation and deformation in
> progress, a possible OpenGL rendering patch, a particle system patch
> (http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/images/particleFountain.jpg), and
> several other things...I'm currently working on a "portal" pigment.
> (Basically, rays hit the pigment and stop, and reappear from somewhere
> else going in a different direction...at least that's what the user
> sees. Like a portal from one area to another.)
>
> --
> Christopher James Huff
> Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
> TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/
>
> <><

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