"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> writes:

> As the subject indicates, I am curious just how many levels of recursion can
> one do with a 3.1 #macro. I want to play around with the Mandelbrot / Julia
> set, but POV crashes at higher iteration settings (50+). Has anyone explored
> the depth of the problem and/or have a solution / workaround? Thanks in
> advance,
> 
> Peter

(Since there isn't a Unix version of POV-Ray 3.1b, I can't try it myself.)
Is it possible to nest macro declarations with other declarations and
while-loops? Then you should try to implement the calculation of the
Mandelbrot/Julia set in a non-recursive way.

I hope this helps.

Thomas

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