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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 11 Apr 2002 11:54:40
Message: <3CB5B1BE.21D239C@gmx.de>

"Sir Charles W. Shults III" wrote:
> 
>     When you see that "holey" effect- it appears that there are steps or holes
> in the isosurface and you have to increase the max_trace value to help eliminate
> them.  I have had a few do that and curing it steps up the render time a lot.
> What is the source of that anyway?  You may be the right person to tell me.

I can only assume you are having problems with max_gradient and accuracy,
apart from that i don't know about any general problems with the
appearance of isosurface objects.

Christoph

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