In article <40389d5e$1@news.povray.org>,
 Andrew C on Mozilla <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

> > IMHO this comes down to 'pov ain't oo' - I don't think anyone denies 
> > that oo capabilities in pov wouldn't be at the very least interesting, 
> > but that's not the issue....
> 
> POV sure ain't OO. No doubt about it ;-)

Actually, it comes close in many ways. You transform all shapes and 
textures. You can texture all shapes. You can use the solid ones in CSG. 
It's a fixed heirarchy, but you could express it in terms of objects.

object

transformable:object

shape:transformable

solid_shape:shape


finite_solid_shape:solid_shape
sphere:finite_solid_shape
box:finite_solid_shape


infinite_solid_shape:solid_shape
plane:infinite_solid_shape


patch_shape:shape
bicubic_patch:patch_shape
triangle:patch_shape


pigment:transformable
solid_pigment:pigment {color}
patterned_pigment:pigment {pattern, color_map}


texture:transformable
patterned_texture:texture {pattern, texture_map}
plain_texture:texture {pigment, finish, normal}

and so on...

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