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5 Jul 2025 15:02:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Part of the body disappear.  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 7 Dec 2016 15:26:34
Message: <5848707a$1@news.povray.org>
On 12/07/2016 02:57 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 07.12.2016 um 20:50 schrieb William F Pokorny:
>> On 12/07/2016 12:35 PM, akopjan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Add 'all_intersections' to your isosurface definition.
>>
>> The ray tracing code, by default, stops on the first isosurface-surface.
>>
>> There is too 'max_trace <n>' which lets you set the number of surfaces
>> to find when you know how many surfaces you'll need.
>
> (Just for the records, strictly speaking `all_intersections` just sets
> the `max_trace` parameter to the maximum supported value, which is
> currently 10.)
>
Thanks. I'd always taken the documentation to be correct!

Suppose we should update the wiki:

http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Isosurface

near the bottom of the page.

Jim, Are you listening?

Bill P.


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