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  Re: Does anyone else have a problem with the adc_bailout on Windows?  
From: Ian J  Burgmyer
Date: 12 Mar 2003 23:15:25
Message: <3e7005dd$1@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich's furious key-hammering produced this:
>> I tried using the adc_bailout with PovRay 3.1 and 3.5 for Windows, and in
>> both cases, it didn't matter if I set it to 0 or to 0.99, I always get the
>> same results with reflections and refractions.  Is this a bug in the
>> Windows version?
> 
> Thanks a lot for reporting this.  Really interesting that nobody noticed.

So adc_bailout *was* buggy.  Glad to know it's not just me...heh.  I tried it
once and thought that I was doing something wrong (as I had never used it
before) and never thought of posting anything on it.  Scary.

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