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29 Jul 2024 06:25:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Changes to some patterns?  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 16 Feb 2004 20:51:03
Message: <cjameshuff-435481.20513516022004@news.povray.org>
In article <4022f541$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Michael Raiford" <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> I noticed glasschess.pov looks slightly different as well, but this could be
> caused by changes in the way refraction is handled when two surfaces meet.

I seem to remember that in an earlier version, there was a coincident 
surfaces problem on the board squares. I thought it was fixed in 3.5 
though, so if you're seeing differences between 3.5 and 3.6...


> There are others, but I can't think offhand. I know some of the scenes that
> use glass in certain contexts (wineglass, lamppost, grenadine), look
> different. I've posted on p.bt.b a rendering of Arches under both versions
> of the raytracer.

That's got to be wrong...probably something's not getting initialized 
right.

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