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  Re: A modest proposal  
From: Glen Berry
Date: 30 Jun 1999 02:57:36
Message: <3779bff2.82012502@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:59:46 -0400, "Mark Wagner"
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

>I just had an idea for an improvement to the POV-Ray scene language:
>
>Get rid of all the object keywords except blob, julia_fractal, and poly.
>
>This would not prevent the use of the other types of shapes, as all of the
>other shapes can be created from these basic types using only the
>'intersection', 'union', and 'inverse' keywords.

What about planes, triangles, and meshes? (Not to be confused with a
comedy staring Steve Martin and John Candy.) Can these really be
created with only the object types you mention?

Incidently, for a "modest" proposal, this sounds pretty radical to me.


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