TinCanMan wrote:
>>I've posted the source for the scene in povray.text.scene-files.  I
>>wouldn't think the scene is scaled abnormally.  The sphere is one
>>pov-unit in radius.  The camera is location<-7,6,-4>.  I'm stumped.
>>
>>-- Jeff
>>
> 
> 
> Yeah I see that now.  I think it is as ingo said.  The light source is too
> close to the object.  The resulting photons get spread out too much to cover
> the entire object. In order to get smoother results at this distance you
> need to play with the various settings, either increase 'count' or deacrease
> 'spacing' (use only one of the two as they mutually exclusive, only one is
> used if both are specified), also try increasing 'radius'.
> 
> -tgq
> 
> 

Thanks for the help.  As I told Ingo, I used his suggestions and got rid 
of any 'count' reference and decreased my spacing and added a glass 
cylinder.  I may have gone overboard with 'spacing 0.001'.  I took about 
6 minutes to open up this reply window while pov sorts ~18,000,000 
photons -- not to mention other open apps on my desktops.  So far, the 
results look good, using the just released 3.5 final.  Seems very 
stable.  I think if there were a memory leak in the linux version, I'd 
have found it :).

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