POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Subtle change in agate btw. 3.5->3.6?: Re: Subtle change in agate btw. 3.5->3.6?

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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 24 Jun 2004 04:00:03
Message: <cbe1k0$2cq$1@chho.imagico.de>

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>>
>>That does not sound reasonable to me, the smoothing change would only
>>influence the normal vector returned by trace(), not the intersection
>>point.  The difference Thorsten Crass observed is in the intersection
>>points and not only in the normals.
> 
> 
> I do not know for sure.  A certain variance is to be expected.

I checked and there is a difference in parstxtr.cpp, 
Make_Pattern_Image(), didn't bother to look in which change it was 
introduced.

Christoph

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