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5 Oct 2024 15:54:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: "Wormhole" effect?  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 10 Oct 2009 22:14:24
Message: <Y320TCCz7T0KFwj4@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Vladimir Panteleev who wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is it possible to create a surface which - when hit by a ray - simply transmits
>the ray out of another surface? I'm trying to create an effect similar to that
>in the video game "Portal".

There was a MegaPov that had such a feature. It was introduced in 
MegaPov 1.1 as a pigment called camera_view. You paint a Portal with the 
camera_view pigment and the colour of its surface is the view seen from 
the specified camera.


-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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