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4 Jul 2024 14:31:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: transparent blob bug  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 18 Jan 2010 03:10:11
Message: <4b541763@news.povray.org>
Tim Attwood a écrit :
>> David Burnett wrote:
>>> I appear to have hit a transparent blob bug.
> 
> This is more of a performance issue...
> it's unrelated to ticket #53.
> 
> It renders in a reasonable time with 3.6,
> so there definitely is something else wrong somewhere
> in the 3.7 blob code.

Having looked deeply at the 3.7 blob code, during #53, and compared it
to 3.6... the code are nearly identical, IIRC.

But it might be related to the calling code, which was/still doing a
fancy (IMHO) tweaking when counting the depth of a ray.
(see trace.cpp, circa line 192)


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