On 04/14/2012 03:40 PM, James Holsenback wrote:
> On 04/14/2012 11:56 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> Le 14/04/2012 13:34, Thomas de Groot nous fit lire :
>>> On 14-4-2012 12:00, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> OK. Then note that +BM1, or +BM2, or Bounding_method, do not exist as
>>> terms in the documentation index. Only BSP or BSP bounding refer to the
>>> paragraph.
>>
>> For the curious:
>>
>> http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Tracing_Options#BSP_Bounding
>>
>> I guess contribution in discussion might be welcome.
>
> guessing it might have more to do with the fact it was missing from the
> index (got broke last release) of files rather than then content.

hate it when I follow up to myself ... added: {{#indexentry:Options, 
+BM1, +BM2}} to go with this tag: {{#indexentry:Options, bounding, BSP}} 
that was already there

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