POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : povray output is not showing on php page : Re: povray output is not showing on php page Server Time
26 Jun 2024 08:57:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: povray output is not showing on php page  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 14 Apr 2012 06:00:27
Message: <4f894abb$1@news.povray.org>
Le 14/04/2012 09:06, Thomas de Groot nous fit lire :
> On 14-4-2012 0:11, Alain wrote:
>> As of version 3.6 onward, +bxxx (Output File Buffer) is useless and
>> silently ignored.
>>
> Now that you mention this, since version 3.7 I have been using +bm2 in
> my ini out of habit. However, I am unable to find any reference to it in
> the docs and I don't remember its purpose. I am feeling a bit stupid
> now... :-)

BM is bounding method (1 or 2, but can be disabled with -B )
Default is 1 (traditional bounding box).
Method 2 is using a BSP Tree (binary space partition tree)

Some pathological scenes get benefit from method 2... or detriment.


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.