mon### [at] stinet news:3f0dac11@news.povray.org

> Just one question.  When I raise the recursion limit, the redering time
> increases ALOT.  Is this normal?

Yes.
I suggest to use in radiosity adc_bailout instead of recursion limit

a) for pre-tests
recursion_limit 3 adc_bailout 1/64

b) normal
recursion_limit 5 adc_bailout 1/128

c) perfect
recursion_limit 10 adc_bailout 1/256

-- 
#macro g(U,V)(.4*abs(sin(9*sqrt(pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))))*pow(1-min(1,(sqrt(
pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))*.3)),2)+.9)#end#macro p(c)#if(c>1)#local l=mod(c,100
);g(2*div(l,10)-8,2*mod(l,10)-8)*p(div(c,100))#else 1#end#end light_source{
y 2}sphere{z*20 9pigment{function{p(26252423)*p(36455644)*p(66656463)}}}//M

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