Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, do completely transparent containers (w/o ior, etc) use
> max_trace? If so, why?

  There's no difference between a completely transparent and a semitransparent
surface from the point of view of the raytracing engine.
  How could you make it *not* to increase the recursion level if the surface
is completely transparent? If there was an easy solution, the exact same
solution could be applied always, regardless of the amount of transparency.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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