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30 Jul 2024 06:31:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Isosurface problem 2  
From: Gilles Tran
Date: 14 Feb 2000 07:52:00
Message: <38A7FA84.F36E9B00@inapg.inra.fr>
Gail Shaw wrote:

> I had a similar thing a while ago, I was using a pigment function and adding
> it to x^8+y^8+z^8. Often the entire isosurface (or large parts) of it
> disappeared. I never actually solved the problem, but I got the isosurface to
> appear
> more-or-less
> intact by moving it around and scaling the pigment by small amounts.

This drove me crazy too, until I discovered that having a proper max_gradient
value fixed the problem. Now I have a first run without max_gradient, I look at
the statistics and use the max_gradient value shown there.

G.


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