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3 Aug 2024 18:23:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Media intervals default?  
From: Severi Salminen
Date: 1 Dec 2003 13:00:09
Message: <3fcb81a9$1@news.povray.org>
Slime wrote:

>>The povray 3.5 manual states, that the number of intervals in media
>>defaults to 10, but I believe it defaults to 1 instead.
> 
> 
> The relevant part POV-Ray 3.5 manual was originally written for v3.1, when
> method 1 was the only available media sampling method. When it was updated
> for 3.5, that section was not made clear that what it was talking about is
> no longer the default sampling method - the default is now method 3, and the
> documentation mostly talks about method 1. (Discussion about methods 2 and 3
> are further down on the same page, I think.)
> 
> Add "method 1" to your code and you will probably get the default 10
> intervals.
> 
> This is an area of the documentation which could be improved to avoid
> misunderstandings like this.

Thanks for fast answering!

Severi Salminen


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