It just occurred to me, what if the HF is actually getting a kind of degenerate
triangle happening when the parts close in so much.  I picture it like this:  a
peak (or trough) is basically a polygon of triangles which would come very
closely folded together like if you were to stretch a pyramid very far upward
until near the point the surfaces are almost touching.  The problem with that
theory is why would the whole triangle collapse into another if the base is
still at an acceptable width.  Changing only the height shouldn't change the
bases, unless they were somehow moved inward upon themselves.
Anyone else follow that line of reasoning?  Just my idea on it, I don't know the
true structure of a HF.

Bob

"Bob Hughes" <omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:389d84d2@news.povray.org...
|   It seems to be related only to the height scaling near as I can tell, as
| though it begins to break down the triangle mesh thing of the HF.  Possible
that
| it could be any large scaling that would do this too but I only saw it doing
it
| with large y scales, large x or z scales didn't cause any problems.
|   Another thing I found by trying this scene file out is that when I
| Ctrl-Alt-Del out of MegaPov (it essentially becomes unstoppable within the
| program) there are leftover MegaPovs left running even though it has been End
| Task'd.
| It had gotten slower to load on each subsequent run and then I realized there
| were multiple instances of MegaPov left behind.  A real major crash then I
| guess, or at least mysterious.
|
| Bob
|
| "Nieminen Juha" <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote in message
| news:389d6412@news.povray.org...
| |   Please don't send binary attachments to non-binaries groups.
| |   I know that some programs don't show the difference between a text and
| | a binary-attached text (user friendly?) and one can send one by mistake.
| |   Someone who knows better than me can tell you the exact procedure to avoid
| | text attachments in binary format.
| |
| | --
| | main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
| | ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/
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