In article <1eni9zz.3lujdx14tvfsyN%Stephane.Nicolet@ens.fr>, 
Ste### [at] ensfr (Stephane Nicolet) wrote:

> Anybody remembers the twisted TV cameras looking at their own outputs in
> chapter XV of "Goedel, Escher and Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter ?

Well, no...actually, I have no idea what you are talking about, aside 
from the arrangement of a camera looking at it's own output.


> Would be nice if Pov-Ray was able to reproduce the pulsating, chaotic 
> galaxy images they generates on the TV screen :-)

Well, there are many variables in that system...(screen pixels, scanning 
of the CRT, delays in the line, etc...), but you might get some 
interesting effects with warps and various portal parameters.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
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