While working on my next scene something wasn't behaving in the way I 
expected, big suprise.

So as I try and do, I isolated out in a separate file those components I 
wanted to test and started fiddling. Things started to look odd, damn 
followed by ooo!

Then looking at the code I thought: "There's not much there I wonder if I 
can make this shorter". So the result is as attached.

Now can anyone guess how I did this with 252 characters and no textures, 
non-default finishes or normals just pigments, objects and lights :)

To be honest I'm still working out why it does this, I just thought it 
looked funky. On the plus side I've found out in better detail how some 
objects work

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Phil Cook

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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:20:09 +0100, Phil Cook 
<phi### [at] nospamdeckingdealscouk> wrote:

#macro S(P,T)light_source{y*0.99 rgb 0.2}sphere{0,2 pigment{P filter 1 
transmit 0.6}translate y*0.1*T no_image}#end#declare 
U=union{S(rgb<1,1,0>,4)S(blue 1,3)S(green 1,2)S(red 1,1)translate 
z*10}object{U}object{U scale y*-1}plane{-z,-17 pigment{rgb 1}}

So can anyone shorten this? And does anyone know exactly why it does this 
:)

Changing the position of the light_source y is fun as is using merge 
instead of union. As I've no_image(d) the sphere; difference makes them 
show up although for some reason I get a "Warning: Camera is inside a 
non-hollow object..." which as the radius 2 spheres are translated z*10 
and the camera is at 0 and I'm not inside the plane object, I find odd.

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happy to be proven wrong.

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