Thanks, the circles were gone when I changed to 24 bit color. Now it looks
really fine.
About Texture magic seems to be a program to create your own textures for
POV. Maybe I will try to get it...but still got enough.
Aldo

K. Tyler wrote:

> Aldo Colombo wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I trace a single sphere (code below, taken from POV tutorial) and I see
> > circles (i.e. the illumination seems not to be even, or...?). Anyone
> > know why?
> > Also: I heard about Texture Magic which might interest me, any further
> > info?
> > Thanks,
> > Al
> >
> > #include "colors.inc"
> > camera {
> >     location <0, 1, -10>
> >     look_at 0
> >     angle 36
> >   }
> > light_source { <500, 500, -1000> White }
> > sphere { <0, 0, 0>, 1
> >     pigment { Red }
> >     translate 0.5*x
> >   }
>
> A quick Guess.
>   If your screen is set to 256 colors you will see banding.
> Try setting to a higher screen resolution. 16 million is the
> best of course.
>
> I can't remember which program Texture Magic is so I'm
> going to keep quiet for now.
>
> K.Tyler

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