In article <409706ca$1@news.povray.org>,
 Eamon Caddigan <eca### [at] uiucedu> wrote:

> Just out of curiosity (and feel free to not waste your time answering
> this), why enforce the "no texture" rule for clipping objects anyway? I
> can think of plenty of reasons to clip by an object that's also drawn,
> and in my case (programically-created scene files), it would be pretty
> convenient. I tried to think of a good reason to insist that clip
> objects not be textured from POV-Ray's standpoint, but couldn't come up
> with anything.

No technical reason that it couldn't be done, but it would waste memory 
to store the texture for an object that will never be visible. 
Personally, I think it should let the memory be wasted for the time 
being, it would be less likely to be a problem.

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