I know nothing of these "photons" of which you speak, but the unmodified 
contents of your zip file can be used to generate an image.  It takes a 
while, but it doesn't crash (3.6.1c.icl8.win32).  Stats in p.b.s-f, 
image in p.b.i.

Cute little critters...  Nice modelling.



Scene Statistics
   Finite objects:          816
   Infinite objects:          1
   Light sources:            17
   Total:                   834
Possible Rendering Error: Maximum trace level reached! If your scene 
contains black spots read more about the max_trace_level setting in the 
documentation!

Render Statistics
Image Resolution 800 x 600

Pixels:           481275   Samples:          729803   Smpls/Pxl: 1.52
Rays:            2721264   Saved:            426278   Max Level: 5/5

Ray->Shape Intersection          Tests       Succeeded  Percentage

Blob                        4792646042      2628670844     54.85
Blob Component             16408325546     13121840254     79.97
Blob Bound                 43641810229     24000003896     54.99
Box                        12996418225      6138963510     47.24
Cone/Cylinder               4853161191       724169730     14.92
CSG Intersection            4732723693      1192002778     25.19
CSG Merge                   1283145435      1282934163     99.98
CSG Union                   1375211429       629703113     45.79
Plane                        160514696        10952539      6.82
Sphere                      2316324133       667863998     28.83
Torus                        644305691        58523889      9.08
Torus Bound                  644305691        63745043      9.89
Bounding Box                8452476968      4887904824     57.83
Light Buffer               18947350698     10228075570     53.98
Vista Buffer                  66435980        52907199     79.64

Roots tested:            4752339395   eliminated:            162321768
Calls to Noise:                   0   Calls to DNoise:              10

Shadow Ray Tests:         184980927   Succeeded:             134069771
Reflected Rays:             1691851
Refracted Rays:              219534
Transmitted Rays:              1413

Radiosity samples calculated:             2763 (0.17 %)
Radiosity samples reused:              1615531

Smallest Alloc:                  18 bytes
Largest  Alloc:               38416 bytes
Peak memory used:           9053937 bytes
Total Scene Processing Times
   Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1 seconds)
   Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
   Render Time:   5 hours 57 minutes  9 seconds (21429 seconds)
   Total Time:    5 hours 57 minutes 10 seconds (21430 seconds)
CPU time used: kernel 8.44 seconds, user 21416.80 seconds, total 
21425.23 seconds
Render averaged 22.40 PPS over 480000 pixels

POV-Ray finished








Sven Littkowski wrote:
> I am not sure if POVRAY crashes on my scene file or not, who can help?
> 
> It starts to parse the photons, but at position 45176 it suddenly stops 
> doing anything. Maybe POVRAY still calculates, but I am not sure. At least, 
> it reacts properly on abort request. Who would like to test my file (see 
> attached ZIP) and tell me if it crashed or not?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Sven Littkowski 
> 
>

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