In article <39513B4A.849565A7@home.nl>, Remco Poelstra 
<rjp### [at] homenl> wrote:

> I was reading the povray html manual about the camera for translating
> effects. I read about the angle. Viewing angles bigger than 360 degrees
> should give special fx, so I thought let's try. I use the standard
> camera. The viewing angle had to be smaller than 180 degrees. Perhaps
> this could be set in the manual?

It *is* in the manual:
4.4.2  Types of Projection
...
  If none is specified, the perspective  camera is the default.
...
Perspective projection:
... The viewing angle has to be larger than 0 degrees and smaller than 
180 degrees.
(severely clipped to save space)


> I pulled it on 179 and added a clock, to see the differences, between
> no angle and full angle.
> Povray then seg faults when creating the vista light buffers.

Does this happen without using clock? Have you tried using #debug to 
make sure your angle value is within the 0-180 range?

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