POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.animations : Re: Flowing Water take 4 (985KB) : Re: Flowing Water take 4 (985KB) Server Time
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  Re: Flowing Water take 4 (985KB)  
From: Rune
Date: 18 Jun 2001 18:27:54
Message: <3b2e806a@news.povray.org>
"Nikodemus Siivola" wrote:
> "Rune" wrote:
> > Perhaps one reason for the occasional errors
> > could be that a ray accidentally hits exactly
> > between two triangles of the heightfield?
>
> Have you tried it with a plane for example?
> If you get misses there, it can't be a triangle
> problem...

According to the tests I've done, the errors always happen at "cracks".

There are small cracks both in height_fields an in CSG objects.

Rune
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