"SomeOne" <ask### [at] yahoocouknospam> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit new to POV so maybe I'm asking an obvious question. I stumbled across
> this problem that I can't figure out.
>
> I have this scene:
>
> #include "colors.inc"
>
> global_settings { assumed_gamma .5 }
>
> camera {
>     location <0, 4, -6>
>     look_at  <0, 0,  0>
> }
>
>
> plane {
>     < 0, 1, 0 >, 0
>     pigment {
>      checker
>      color Red, color Blue
>     }
> }
>
>
> light_source { <5, 3, -40>, color White}
>
> which produces this image: <test1.png>
>
> Then I change the orientation of the plane from <0,1,0> to <0.2,1,0> and this
> is the result: <test2.png>
>
> If I change the orientation even further to <1,1,0> it gets even worse:
> <test3.png>

I solved this problem with:
pigment {
....
rotate <0,0,45>
}

>
> I'm using WIndows XP (Home) with POV-Ray 3.6.0.icl8.win32
>
> Can anyone explain what causes the shrinking/disappearance of (some of) the
> tile rows and how to overcome this?
>
> --
> SomeOne

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