In article <Av7### [at] econymdemoncouk>, 
nos### [at] econymdemoncouk says...
> If you replace the "plane {y,-5" with a box of finite thickness,
> something like "box {<-1000,-1000,-1000><1000,-5,1000>" the chaotic
> effect goes away.
> 
Though.. Technically, it isn't infinite, the plane bisects a sphere, so 
the media is actually contained in that. Reducing the size of the sphere 
to 10000 still produces the same oddities, though with some faint white 
streaks in it, like the edges of ripples. 5000 and the whole thing starts 
to get murky and darker, but the pattern never disappears and it starts 
to look like some odd thing floating inside the media. I need a faster 
computer.. lol But seriously, it doesn't seem to be a result of the 
ambient on the sphere either... This is really odd.

Hmm.. It gets less visible at a sphere size of 2000 and pretty much 
vanishes, (in the sense that it is no longer a 'sharp edged' pattern), at 
1000, though the resulting pattern is still showing complex oddities. It 
is nothing like what a box produces. This definitely seems to be 
*entirely* related to the choice of using a sphere and a plane to create 
a container for the media. Definitely interesting, but very strange.

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