Andy Cocker <big### [at] mariner9fsnetcouk> wrote:
: Would you care to go into more detail here, or should I just wait and see?

  Yes, the team has given permission to talk about 3.5.

  For example functions have been improved in 3.5. You can make functions
returning vectors and you can use splines in functions. You also have
several options (with the dot-operator) to convert a vector to a float
(besides the previous .x, .y and .z) so you can easily use vector functions
in float functions. There are many other improvements as well.
  Another example are the fractal patterns. You don't only have mandel and
julia sets with exponents 2, 3 and 4, but you can, in fact, specify an
exponent up to 33.

: Has radiosity been changed/improved?

  I think some changes have been done (as images look slightly different
when rendered with 3.5 than with MegaPov), but I don't know if any radical
improvements have been made.

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