clipka wrote:
> If the same thing had happened to the - significantly older - main HD of my
> Windows machine, it would have meant sayonara to something like a week of
> brain-wrecking radiosity thinking and coding...

This reminds me... I mentioned in p.b.images that I sometimes get black 
splotches in certain scenes using radiosity. It is not caused by 
reflecting or refracting objects in the scene; I've known about those 
artifacts for some time.

This problem is caused by something else. I ran into it again last 
night. The radiosity count was at 300 when it happened. As it turns out 
the problem has to do with my setting for adc_bailout. I had it set to a 
value of 0.1. I changed it to 1/256 and the black splotches are gone! I 
found no mention in the docs about such behavior, but it makes sense in 
a way. I don't know why raising the count would make black splotches 
suddenly appear though, but since I have a fix I don't really care at 
this point. I thought I'd let you know about it, just in case it's not 
supposed to work that way.

Sam

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