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30 Jul 2024 02:28:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: CSG error. Help?  
From: PoD
Date: 29 Apr 2000 18:43:02
Message: <390B6C8C.C4910D20@merlin.net.au>
Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> Alf Peake wrote:
> >
> > (Was originaly posted in p.prog)
> > I was having another try at smoothly joining 2 different sized pipes or tubes
> > at rightangles when I hit this problem - one tube developed large holes in it.
> > Open or closed cylinders made no difference but they do change with camera
> > angle or RadW. I used DOS versions of mpov 0.4 and pov 3.1g.
> >
> > Any ideas where the problem is please?
> >
> 
> I have no idea of what causes this error, but I
> have included a file below that produces similar
> errors in my POV-Ray v3.1g for Windows 98.
> 
> The spheres are "shining" through the cylinder
> when there are many of them in a "sweep" behind it.
> 
> Tor Olav
> 
> --
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> 

Note that in the statistics reported after the trace, there is a report
of I-stack overflows.
Increase max_intersections in the global_settings section.

Cheers, PoD.


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