Hello, I'm stuck on a problem concerning the reflection of objects which use
either the basic povray "Glass" texture or a custom one.

here are four pictures to describe the problem :
http://img690.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=vitre2.png

The camera is located inside a house (and is looking outside).

As you can see on the first 2 pictures (one with the custom glass, the other one
with the basic glass), we can see the street by the left window, but through the
other window, there is like a bug that makes it behave like a perfect mirror on
the left part of it( I'm not sure about that).
The third picture shows that this problems depends on the angle between the
camera and the window. The problems doesn't appear if you look at the window
directly (last picture).
I insist on the fact that it happens for all the windows in the street, it only
depends on the angle.

Please don't ask about how the windows are constructed, there can't be a problem
with that because there are all built with the same macro which places
window-panes and this macro works perfectly if you look at it directly.

This is the code for the custom glass texture (which is not mine):

#declare Window_Glass =
texture{
  pigment{ rgbf<0.98,0.98,0.98,0.8>}
    finish {
    specular 0.7
    roughness 0.001
    ambient 0
    diffuse 0
    reflection {
      0.2, 1.0
      fresnel on
    }
    conserve_energy
  }
} // end of texture

If dosen't really matter if this texture is good or not, the problem occurs with
the basic Glass texture too.

I hope you understand the problem, I don't know if this is normal but I haven't
found a topic about that. Thank you for your replies.

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