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9 Aug 2024 19:41:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Superellipsoids & Orthographic Camera - Bug ?  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 16 May 2000 22:25:58
Message: <chrishuff_99-794914.21292816052000@news.povray.org>
In article <39211b20@news.povray.org>, "Peter Houston" 
<hou### [at] inamecom> wrote:

> I believe there is a bug in the POV-Ray code, it is evident when you 
> view a superellipsoid with an orthographic camera and rotate it y*90 
> ( refer to image in p.b.i and code in p.t.s-f)
> 
> I have noticed that it happens in Official 3.1g (Windows), MegaPov 
> 0.4 and MegaPOV 0.5

This might be the problem:
camera {...
    location  <0.0, 0, -10>
    ...
    look_at   <0.0, 0.0,  0.0>
    ...
}

I seem to remember there being precision problems with cameras pointed 
along an axis...I could be wrong though. Anyway, try moving the camera 
slightly.

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