On Thu, 06 Dec 2001 00:21:18 GMT, Angelo 'kENpEX' Pesce wrote:
> little slower because we can't include anything that is not
> portable... like a jit-compiler system for this shading-scripts for
> example)

That's where you're wrong.  JIT is acceptable as a platform-specific
extension, because it doesn't keep anyone from using the shaders on 
a platform that doesn't have JIT yet.

> Really? I didn't know that... As I sayied in another post, I would
> really like to have a tech doc about povray... :/

Well, it's not in the source code that's accessible to the public yet
anyway; this is a new feature in 3.5.

>>: 4) Blurred reflection
>>  You can already do blurred reflection (see my other post where I show
>>an example). You can also make blurred refraction currently as well.
> I know, but as U can read in another reply, you can do it via a trick,
> and I don't know why I should do that via a trick...

Define "trick."  You do it via a process that very closely resembles
the actual physical process that causes blurred reflection.  I fail to
see how that can be considered a "trick."

> Actually someone proposed to make a .NET tool... I think that a java
> tool will be really good, as java has networking features and it's
> portable and secure for that

Such tools are the province of third-party developers.  The POV-Team
works on POV, not on the various frontends for it.  It's possible that
a future version will include some sort of cross-platform TCP/IP support,
if that's feasible, but nobody's making any promises.

> So at last I think I made a reasonable wish list here... Who knows,
> mabye someone of the pov-team will listen to my wishes somedays...

You've been engaged in a flame war with at least two members of the 
POV-Team, and more than one member of the POV TAG.  Didn't you know that?

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