I ran into a similar problem with some blobs I made.  I was trying to make a
generic flower (daisy), which meant squishing sphere components to make the
petals.  I ended up having to make the flower about 100 units across in
order to eliminate MOST (unfortunately not all) of the visual artifacts.  I
also ended up making the petals thicker, because thinner petals had huge
artifacts even at very large scales.  At a scale of even 5 units across,
large portions of the tips of the petals got cut off, etc.

For example, instead of scaling a sphere component by <32, 1.5, 10> to make
a thin petal, I had to scale by <32, 4, 12> to get a useable petal.

Frank wrote:
>Hi Thorsten,
>
>the pictures I've postet were rendered on a P2, 233 MHz, 32 MByte,
>running Windows 95. The POV_Ray-Versions were (according to the
>help menu):
> - official 3.1g.watcom.win32
> - official 3.5 icl.win32
>
>If new features of 3.5 should require such a high 'epsilon',
>I suggest to multiply internally all coordinate values by at least
>100. Currently screen-filling objects of unit size are unusable
>due to visible artefacts (esp. when they are transparent).
>
>   Sputnik
>
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