This pov file:

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#include "colors.inc"
#include "metals.inc"

light_source { <6, 9, -21> color White }
camera { location <0, 0, -3> look_at <0, 0, 0> }

sphere_sweep {
                cubic_spline
                6
                <-2.0, 0, 0> 0.05

                <0.000,0,0> 0.2
                <0.025,0,0> 0.2
                <0.050,0,0> 0.2
                <0.075,0,0> 0.2

                <3.0,0,0> 0.2
                pigment { color White }
}

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Produces two strange artifacts: A disk at the center of the sweep, and a faint
"halo" or veil which shows as 4 faint hyperbolas centered around the origin.

I have tried tweaking tolerance (for no other reason than I saw that someone
else was tweaking it to solve a problem) but this does not seem to change
things.

For a look at MY result when I run this, view this image:

http://riventree.com/archive/bugdata/povray/SphereSweepArtifacts.jpg

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-Jeff Evarts

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