> "Rendering Error: Too many nested refracting objects."

> Is there any way I can get POV-Ray to up the limit on whatever is
> happening? Or a better way to get around the issue? There are probably
> no more than 2-300 overlapping objects in any one ray -- that
> shouldn't be too much to choke a raytracer in this day and age, right?

Get the POV-Ray sources, open source/frame.h, grep for the line
#define MAX_CONTAINING_OBJECTS 100
change it to whatever you feel like and recompile. Don't set it too
high, though, as it will make POV-Ray use quite a bit more memory, and
run slightly slower.

POV-Ray was not written with the zero-one-infinity rule in mind.

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