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  Re: sphere_sweep 3.7 beta 6 artifacts  
From: omniverse
Date: 15 May 2017 02:35:01
Message: <web.59194ba59d6de4e49c5d6c810@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 15.05.2017 um 07:25 schrieb omniverse:
> > Told of at the beta test group, beta 6 release messages.
> >
> > This image shows (Windows) official 3.7 rendering at top, beta 6 bottom. Both
> > are from the 64 bit program, and I haven't tried anything else.
>
> This is a known regression, and will possibly /not/ be fixed in the
> final 3.7.1.
>
> The background story is that these artifacts had been around in 3.6
> already. We did make an attempt to fix them in 3.7.0, but we found out
> just recently that in doing so we had broken other things.
>
> So we removed the fix in beta 6, and are now back at square 1.
>
>
> The sphere sweep updates in beta 7 are unrelated to these artifacts.

Wups. Thanks for saying that, because these were actually done in beta 7!

Too bad there's so much trouble with sphere_sweep. It always was one of those
problematic things, I know. Just so useful an object. I was thinking it was
finally tamed.


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