On Fri, 21 May 1999 14:20:00 -0500, GrimDude wrote:
>  I came across something odd last night and thought I'd pass it along.
>  I was rendering a 13 frame animation when a thunderstorm came up. I was
>forced to shut down rendering just as the last frame was mid-way finished.
>In the morning I erased the half-rendered image, added the +c switch to the
>command line window, and sat back to watch it finish. To my horror the last
>frame was *much* brighter the all of the others, and nothing else had
>changed!
>  So, I stopped the render, again erased the partial trace, and restarted
>once again. This time everything came out fine. Should I always begin a
>bogus trace and stop it right away? Is this a bug or is my system porked? :)
>  Has anyone else noticed anything along this line?

This was a bug in the official version as well.  I think it's fixed 
in 3.1e.  You'll find that none of your frames look any different 
than they would if you had rendered without radiosity.

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