In article <web.3dedbae45d040d8dc571aa6c0@news.povray.org>,
 "Rohan Bernett" <rox### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> Assuming we want to be able to model the actual effects, would it be
> possible to do it by modifying the POV source code?

I don't think you can write something that simulates *all* the effects, 
it is probably completely impractical to do. The answer depends on how 
much you want to simulate in POV, but doing anything of any complexity 
would take a huge amount of work. Also, POV is not a simulation program, 
it's a renderer. Many things are "faked" for speed.

It would be possible, but impractical. More work than starting from 
scratch, and wouldn't have any real advantages.

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