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  Re: Far objects are pruned???!!!  
From: Julius Klatte
Date: 5 Jan 1999 21:43:53
Message: <3692cde9.0@news.povray.org>
>The sphere is one of the weakest, it changes size and
>disappears altogether rather easily if scaled too large or
small. The
>box primitive tends to distort quite a bit before suffering
the same
>fate. This happens regardless of camera being scaled to
view objects.
>I could put my scale test file at the scene-files.text
group if I can
>locate it here.


 Yes, the object type matters a lot. I remember some posting
about half a year ago that tried to scale a sphere and a
cylinder down to .... well, almost nothing.
From a certain scale value, the sphere started to shrink
faster than the cylinder.

Julius


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