POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : POV-Ray 3.7.beta.4 available : Re: POV-Ray 3.7.beta.4 available Server Time
29 Jul 2024 02:25:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray 3.7.beta.4 available  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 10 May 2005 02:31:18
Message: <42805536$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   There's a speed-related oddity with one scene:
> 
>   scenes\advanced\ionic5\ionic5.pov at 640x480 +a +am2 takes 18 seconds
> to render with pov3.6 and almost 4 minutes with pov3.7beta4.
> 
>   Other scenes seem to render in a more comparable time (equal or even
> faster than pov3.6), so this seems to be a rather unique case.

this is fixed, thanks.

unfortunately to fix it I had to restore the old (buggy) clipping behaviour
of quadrics, however as this has been present for many years it should not be
a major problem.

-- Chris


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