J.D. Herron <boo### [at] gci-netcom> wrote:
: will be illuminated but the sun itself will not be visible.  If I make the
: render distance around
: 10000000 or less, the sun is visible.  Can someone explain this to me?

  There's an internal limit in povray. If an object is farther away than
a certain distance, it's not traced.
  I don't know the specific reasons for this. There may be some accuracy
issues here.

  With that big values your sun might not look like a perfect circle, anyways.
You should be aware that the accuracu of floating point numbers is quite
limited.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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