In article <39AC1FDE.21DBD949@faricy.net>, David Fontaine 
<dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:

> Oops, forgot reflection! The crystals I was just toying around with, 
> they need a little work.

As has been mentioned, they would make great quartz crystals...are you 
going to post the source?
For ice, maybe thinner, more needle-like crystals would help.


> Then fill in the domes (the domes are solid :-(  ).

Completely solid? Ouch...maybe you should leave out parts in the center. 
It would parse a bit longer, but would use less memory.


> Personally, though, I find POV-Ray's language hard to read. I am used 
> to C; you always know where a line ends with a semicolon, no manually 
> incrementing loops, '{}' indicates blocks rather than objects. POV, 
> on the other hand, is very dense visually; characters like '#', long 
> keywords, etc. Loops and other control aids are virtually 
> indistinguishable without actually reading the code, because in order 
> to change a variable you need #local or #declare, which has the same 
> first character and is the same color as #while and #end.

I agree...I think it would be an improvement to use {} blocks for while 
loops and other blocks. Or at least have different ending keywords: 
#endif, #endwhile, etc.
And another thing, it is often difficult to tell if a piece of code is 
creating a variable or modifying it. I have proposed a #set directive 
that is incapable of creating a new variable but would be used to modify 
existing ones, but I seem to be the only person who thinks it is a good 
idea. :-(

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Christopher James Huff
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