On 19 Aug 2000 20:38:33 -0400, Warp wrote:
>In povray.general Mikael Carneholm <sa9### [at] idautbhbse> wrote:
>: Location, as I thought of it, should be one of the common attributes for all
>: objects. Think java again:
>
>: public virtual class POVOBJECT{
>:   public povVector location, rotation;
>: }
>
>  Now you forget one thing: That takes memory. And povray is not very well
>known when speaking about low memory consumption. Let's not make the matter
>even worse.

Then think:

public virtual class POVOBJECT{
  public povVector getLocation(), getRotation();
}

That doesn't take extra memory per object and is also cleaner from
an OO point of view. The methods could compute their values from the
transformation matrix for most objects.

	hp

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