In article <39180526$1@news.povray.org>, "Nathan Kopp" 
<Nat### [at] Koppcom> wrote:

> However, the concept sounds very interesting to me.  Keeping this at 
> 'glow' seems a bit limiting, but if this were to be extended to 
> contain some form of general object information that would be used by 
> the post-processing filters, that might make it worthwhile.  Of 
> course, adding a 6th component to the color vector would cause a loss 
> of performance (decreased speed and increased memory usage).  Anyway, 
> it is a creative idea that is at least worth considering.

I don't think it belongs in the color vector though. Of course, I don't 
think filter and transmit belong there either...I think they should be 
separate colors.
Maybe instead of adding things to the color vector, an "effect_map" 
object attribute would work...

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