POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Re: crash when smooth heightfield : Re: crash when smooth heightfield Server Time
29 Jul 2024 12:14:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: crash when smooth heightfield  
From: Warp
Date: 16 May 2002 08:22:16
Message: <3ce3a478@news.povray.org>
jmvdvalk <jm.### [at] hccnetnl> wrote:
>>>   Wasn't automatic bounding introduced in 3.0?
>>
>>Yes.

> No, in 2.0. (You challenged me into checking the docs ;-)

  I quite clearly remember that in 2.2 you had to bound objects by hand
if you wanted speed, but in 3.0 POV-Ray started to remove those user-specified
bounding objects (because it thought it could do better than me).

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


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