POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: shadow tollernace in global settings ?: Re: shadow tollernace in global settings ?

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 20 Apr 2003 14:56:21
Message: <3ea2ed55@news.povray.org>

In article <Xns### [at] 204213191226>, "Rafal 'Raf256' Maj"
<raf### [at] raf256com> wrote:

> Maybe it would be a good idea to allow settings afair "shadow tollerancy"
> in global settings?
>
> Problem is with shadows, as mentioned often - small objects (about 0.01
> units) causes sometimes
> invalid shadows.

It does not have to do with what you call "shadow tolerance", but it is
intersection calculation precision.  And some of those problems where
actually introduced by bad patches in 3.5 :-(

    Thorsten

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