"Chris Becker" <cmb### [at] ritedu> wrote in message
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> point of over 100 or so layers, POV-Ray says: Too many nested refraction
> objects. I assume this has something to do with stack overflows from the
> recursion?
>
> Is there anyway around this? If I decrease the max_trace_level, I get
black
> sillouts of the disc object, but if I don't have enough disks, you can see
> the individual layers. Any ideas?

There is a work-around.  Use very thin cylinders (however infinitely thin is
impossible).  It seems to be a limitation with infinite objects of which
disc and plane are two such things.
I don't know the reason for it or if there's a setting that will circumvent
this error.

bob h

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