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30 Jul 2024 08:22:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Image_map with alpha channel: strange effect  
From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Date: 14 May 2012 05:16:57
Message: <4fb0cd89@news.povray.org>
Hi(gh)!

On 14.05.2012 03:30, Christian Froeschlin wrote:

> This may be fishing for floating point inaccuracies if you
> have astronomical numbers in the bodies array. Did you try
> with two simple spheres of radius 1 and 1.1?

Yes, that's it... I scaled both spheres separately and set the global 
scaling factor to 1000 (rather than 13347 before), and the effect 
disappeared (see below)!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar


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