gregj;-)565### [at] aolcom news:40230198$1@news.povray.org

An idea - how about set limit of used *words* not characters?

Why? Because I find it quite unjustice that i.e. one word is spelled longer 
then other i.e. "emission" "superellipsoid" not to mention i.e. 
"global_settings" or "max_trace_level".

With limit of i.e. 32 (or 64) keywords contesters can concentrate on 
buliding efficent code, rather then using tricks like  rgb x etc.

Also rules must include some limitations for number of constans - i.e. 
constants should be counted in bytes, to prevent i.e.:

#local compressed_scene = "&(#ND(S(UJAS_LCN(AN(..................."
  // milion lines here 
  ")*#$*@#)$*" ;

// code to decompress



-- 
#macro g(U,V)(.4*abs(sin(9*sqrt(pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))))*pow(1-min(1,(sqrt(
pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))*.3)),2)+.9)#end#macro p(c)#if(c>1)#local l=mod(c,100
);g(2*div(l,10)-8,2*mod(l,10)-8)*p(div(c,100))#else 1#end#end light_source{
y 2}sphere{z*20 9pigment{function{p(26252423)*p(36455644)*p(66656463)}}}//M

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