In article <chrishuff-F48A36.17143522012001@news.povray.org>, 
chr### [at] maccom says...
> 
> Hmm...well, you know what a wormhole is? 
Yes
> And I'm not talking about the 
> kind made by slimy burrowing invertebrates...I mean the relative to 
> black holes.
> The portal pigment basically links one area of space to another...kind 
> of a "magic mirror" effect. You can see into a different area by looking 
> into the portal, and you can set things up so you see the portal itself 
> through the portal, producing a "hall of mirrors" effect. However, this 
> is done by changing the color of a pigment to what would be visible 
> through that point on the portal.
I don't see where the pigment comes in. How can a pigment link one thing 
to another?
> You will also be able to set it up to act like a video monitor showing 
> output from a camera, a less interesting but probably more practical 
> application.
> 
> If you have trouble visualizing it, don't worry...it gives me headaches, 
> and I'm still not quite sure why type 0 works. Or sure that it does.
Perhaps a very simple piece of example code could work??
 

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Regards,  Sander

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