POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Graininess : Re: Graininess Server Time
31 Jul 2024 08:31:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Graininess  
From: SharkD
Date: 12 Jan 2008 00:00:01
Message: <web.4788491022fbe8cfd410b38f0@news.povray.org>
"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> One more little thing:
> When you are making the cones for the lat lines, your are making them 1 unit
> (the sphere radius) high and then offsetting up and down.  If it happens that
> the bottom cone is offset enough that it no longer intersects the sphere
> surface, the grid lines won't extend all the way out as you want them to.  This
> is especially possible near the poles.  I suggest making the cones twice as big
> (just multiply the height and radius by 2) to guarantee that they intersect the
> surface.
>
> -tgq

Thanks for the tip!


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