POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : max_trace_level : Re: max_trace_level Server Time
5 Aug 2024 16:11:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: max_trace_level  
From: Warp
Date: 18 Aug 2002 21:23:07
Message: <3d60487b@news.povray.org>
Rafal 'Raf256' Maj <raf### [at] raf256com> wrote:
> I was just wondering - why max_trace_level has been limited in pov 3.5 to 
> 256 ?

  It was decided that limiting the max_trace_level is better than getting
a buffer overflow crash (which simply can't be helped).

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


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