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3 Aug 2024 10:22:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Max_Intersections?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 2 Mar 2004 19:13:43
Message: <40452337$1@news.povray.org>
In article <404519e7$1@news.povray.org> , "Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim.nikias (@)
nolights.de> wrote:

> But what does max_intersections do?

It sets a static limit to the maximum number of intersections POV-Ray can
handle when tracing a particular ray.  Today there is no technical need for
it, but back in the days when memory was limited, it did matter to have a
static limit.  This keyword will be obsolete once POV-Ray is rewritten
(thus, it will be done for 4.0).

    Thorsten

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