Hello :-))

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gaussianblob.pov works for me with this change
#declare CompNum=6946;
I've also tried some other values for CompNum smaller than 6946 with no problems :-))

But it keeps crashing for
#declare CompNum=6947;
or higher values for CompNum :-((

By adding some #debugs (code below) I found out these things:

The crash always happens for N=6946.
It seems to be no rand() thing, because I've used various seed()s without any
influence
on the results.
The problem seems to be caused by the line
#declare Tracey=trace(Ally,Test+100*y,-y,Norm);
because these were the last lines of debug information:
N=6946
Test ok.

This is the part of gaussianblob.pov with some additional #debugs. To keep this
message
short, I've removed the original comments...

#while(N<CompNum)
  #debug concat("N=",str(N,4,0),"\n")
  #declare Test=<Gauss(S),0,Gauss(S)>;
  #debug "Test ok.\n"
  #declare Tracey=trace(Ally,Test+100*y,-y,Norm);
  #debug "Tracey ok.\n"
  #if (Norm.x = 0 & Norm.y = 0 & Norm.z = 0)
    #declare Posy[N]=Test;
  #else
    #declare Posy[N]=Tracey+Norm*CompRadius;
  #end
  #debug "if ok.\n"
  #declare Ally=
  union {object {Ally}
    sphere {Posy[N], CompRadius}
  }
  #debug "Ally ok.\n"
  #declare N=N+1;
#end

Greetings :-))

Thorsten

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