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  Re: glass sphere  
From: Anthony Bouttell
Date: 18 Feb 1998 01:30:45
Message: <34ed7c71.211769848@news.povray.org>
The MULE, ( Most Unusual Luminous Entity), was an Asmovian gaseous
anomoly and Bass is full of hot air or simply insane - Everybody knows
0xFFFFFE00A0000 rendered backwards sounds like Paul is dead. Way off
in the distance is the sound of Chickens chasing down Colonel Sanders.
"Get him !! Get him !! he's finger licking good !!", they seem to be
saying. 
Aunty Em!. Aunty Em! There's no place like home, There's no place like
home!
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998 18:01:06 -0800, Patrick Bass
<pat### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>Allan Middleton wrote:
>
>>     I used Moray to create a hollow glass sphere and then put a purple
>> one inside. This experiment rendered a black screen (yes i had a light
>> and camera). Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
>Please post your source code, Allen.  You may have inadvertantly run
>across the feature in POV-Ray that encloses everything in a large Black
>Bounding Box to protect the image constituents from being distorted as
>they are created.  Freshly created objects, while they are still at <0,
>0, 0> are subject to phase distortion from the inability of POV-Ray to
>incorporate the Infinite Improbability Algorhythm inside MS Foundation
>Class (including the entire trilogy AND the Mule).
>
>This, as you are aware, is a function of the derived quadratic that
>controls such instantiations as "Where is that stooped and mealy
>coloured old man I used to call Papa when the Merry-Go-Round broke
>Down?" and any RGB value above 0xFFFFE00A0000.
>
>Is this clear?


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