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  Re: any ideas what these black patches are..  
From: s day
Date: 14 Mar 2008 04:20:00
Message: <web.47da42f3d387c8867eb3d110@news.povray.org>
stbenge <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> These look the same radiosity artifacts I get with POV 3.7b. It's a bug
> with the current (beta quality) radiosity calculation.
>
> To get rid of them I just lower the count until they disappear. Of
> course, this will reduce the overall quality, but you can compensate by
> introducing a slight normal to the surfaces and keeping a low
> error_bound. I hope this helps.
>
> Sam

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the info but this is version 3.6. I avoided 3.7 as I know the
radiosity feature is not working correctly yet.

Sean


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