POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Glass Jar : Re: Glass Jar Server Time
29 Jul 2024 22:31:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Glass Jar  
From: James Holsenback
Date: 3 Jul 2013 07:45:30
Message: <51d40eda$1@news.povray.org>
On 07/02/2013 04:10 PM, Alain wrote:

>> I'm testing a user contributed fix related to
>> http://bugs.povray.org/task/287 and thought the image was cool enough to
>> share. It's a work in progress so I'm not entirely sure where it will
>> end up.
>>
>> Oh and I had opportunity for an unexpected extra test. We had a storm
>> roll through and lost power for a few minutes. My 1st response was CRAP
>> eight hours down the drain, but the I remembered +C option. Since the
>> scene has photons I just loaded the already generated photon map instead
>> of regenerating the map, and then enabled continue trace and she
>> finished up the last ten minutes of the render without a hitch!
>>
>> Jim
>> ---
>> PS: the fix probably won't make it into 3.7.0 release because of code
>> freeze.
>
> Very good.
>
> By the way, it's /feature/ freeze. I think that there is still place for
> some bug and glitches fixes.

Maybe we're talking semantics here. After I cleaned up the users code 
,honoring the style already in the source ... "When in Rome do as the 
Romans do ... correct? I was asked to hold off submitting the "fix" ... 
in other words this wasn't a feature addition. So I'm sticking with 
"code" freeze.


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