Anton Sherwood wrote:
> 
> Tor Olav:
> > > (Because there seems to be some
> > > calculations that are not calculated
> > > correctly by POV-Ray. Increasing
> > > max_gradient or accuracy did not help
> > > at all.)
> 
> Slime:
> > If you defined the spiral correctly, that's because the spiral
> > never ends, the detail increases towards the poles infinitely.
> > That is, if I understood the description of the shape that I
> > read a while ago correctly.
> 
> In an equiangular spiral (reverse Mercator projection of oblique
> parallels), that would happen at both poles; TOK said only one.

I don't remember what reverse Mercator projection is,
so I don't quite get what you are saying here.

But I guess that you are thinking the same as me:
That the problem should surface at the other pole as
well, because the gradients should be symmetric too.

 
> What's the formula?

I have posted the source to povray.text.scene-files now:

http://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files/21784/
news://news.povray.org/3C549C14.A9009E4%40online.no


> (Love the textures.)

I just modified one that Gilles Tran once made.
"Radiosity test #2", Aug 2000:

http://news.povray.org/search/?s=Radiosity+test+%232&b=Search


Tor Olav

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