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From: Chris Huff
Date: 22 Jan 2001 07:48:36
Message: <chrishuff-E585B7.07494322012001@news.povray.org>
In article <3A6C1D7F.D7CEEEBE@atosorigin.com>, Jerome Grimbert 
<jer### [at] atosorigincom> wrote:

> Can you have more than one portal in a scene?

The number is limited only by the number of objects you can have...it's 
just a pigment.


> If yes, how do you handle a portal which see another
> portable which see the first...

No special handling is required for this, it will just behave similarly 
to a portal that looks directly into itself.


> (i.e. Do you limit the recursion level ?)

The recursion level is limited by max_trace_level, just like 
transparence and reflection.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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