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From: Kenneth
Date: 21 May 2009 01:05:05
Message: <web.4a14df70c981982af50167bc0@news.povray.org>
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> Something interesting: I just did a further test, with the cutting object having
> a transparent pigment--rgbt <1,1,1,1>--and the result is that you can see into
> each cutaway object.  Nice and weird. But the *really* interesting thing is
> that the many objects' colors are NOT averaged now, but are the originals!
> Which leads me to believe that the current 'averaging' of colors may simply be
> a fixable bug of some kind.
>

Oops, let me qualify that: The now-visible original colors are those of the
*interiors* of all the objects, not the cutaway 'surfaces' (because those
surfaces are now invisible.) So it's not as simple a situation as I described.
Oh well, I thought I was really onto something there... :-(

KW


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