In article <401b1c0a$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> Actually, I'm going to download the code and look at that one this weekend.
> I don't expect that to be hard to do.

It's a bit more difficult than you seem to think. Mainly because there 
are so many different objects. A sphere has a radius and center, but you 
can't get those from a box. To work this into the existing parser, you 
would have to write special cases for every object, pigment type, 
pattern, etc, etc, etc...

A better option might be a framework written in an object oriented 
language that overlays the POV language. I have been working on such a 
framework for Sapphire, my own experimental language. Because everything 
is just a language object until it's converted into a form POV can 
understand, you don't have to have special cases for every little thing. 
If an object has a radius member, you can access it...doesn't matter if 
its a sphere or cylinder, and there's no special code just for handling 
the radius member.

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