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Daniel Dawson wrote:
> Hello, everyone. First of all, I have to say I'm new to POV-Ray development, so
> I hope you forgive my boldness in posting my wild and somewhat ambitious idea
> here. I realize this is a bit... esoteric? But that's sort of the way I am. :-)
> Anyway, I would appreciate thoughts on this. I'm not requesting this as an
> official feature; I just want input.
> 
> 
> Okay, that's all for now. Does any of this make sense? Comments, please.
> 
This is an old idea. Already implemented by someone for povray.
Instead of a finish, it is a pigment, IIRC. (finish have no color)
You might search for "portal", i think.

the notion of "space" is not part of the initial proposal, but is
usually not needed if you can separate enough the non-mixing space
(hiding one behind the camera if you have no reflection, or far far
away, or behind the floor...)

most of the time, a two step rendering of the splitted scene with an
image mapping of the first in the second is enough to simulate your
idea, at the cost of a finite definition but with the advantage of
reduced memory usage and less objects.



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