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29 Mar 2024 08:15:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Weird behaviour  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 15 Aug 2008 11:37:55
Message: <35LG8yBPIapIFw3i@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it John Coppens who wrote:

>The entire scene is contained in a 2 by 2 by 2 area. If I add the new
>object far away (at more than 20 units), it _still_ causes the
>transparency problem, so I guess I'm hitting some limit in PovRay. I went
>through all the global_settings, tried extreme values, compared the
>povray outputs with and without the object, no luck.

That sounds like it might be an automatic bounding slab problem of some 
sort.

Try using the -MB switch with the object present and +MB1 with the 
object absent and see if the behaviour changes.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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