Just random wandering in my mind led me to think about cartoon rendering, 
specifically the black edges. I seem to remember maybe someone trying 
this before, but not sure. Anyway, in the anti-aliases step, if one 
wanted to, couldn't one sort of make something over a certain threshold 
black or darken the line, so it looks like it was drawn? I figured, 
something like:

Ink_Edges = 0 -> 1

1 = 100% dark, I.e. make the pixel black, anything else is darkened by a 
percentage.

Ink_Threshold = 0 -> 1

Determines when the darkening happens, this is "over" the normal AA. So 
if AA is set at a threshold of .1, you could make the ink threshold .5 
and it would only "ink" things if the color difference is 60%, not 10%, 
like the AA.

Anyway, just an odd thought I had for what someone might do to fiddle 
with trying to make POV-Ray "look" like cartoon art. I think I remember 
someone doing something similar before though....

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