I remember someone saying that there's a way to limit the max_trace_level
of blurred reflection calculations in the global_settings. However, I can't
find this information in the documentation.
  What is the syntax and how does it work?

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In article <38bcf1c4@news.povray.org>, Nieminen Juha 
<war### [at] sarakerttunencstutfi> wrote:

>   I remember someone saying that there's a way to limit the 
>   max_trace_level of blurred reflection calculations in the 
>   global_settings. However, I can't find this information in the 
>   documentation.
>   What is the syntax and how does it work?

There are two parameters in global_settings:
global_settings {
    reflection_blur_max INTEGER
    reflection_blur_max_adc FLOAT
}

The reflection_blur_max keyword specifies a max trace level for 
blurring. The blurring will only be done below this level, after it is 
reached plain reflection will be used. This is similar to the 
max_trace_level keyword. The default value is the same as the default of 
max_trace_level, I think.

The reflection_blur_max_adc keyword specifies the ADC bailout for 
blurring. Blurring will only be done if the ADC weight is less than this 
value. This is similar to the adc_bailout keyword. The default should be 
1/255. There was a bug with this one, an integer instead of a float was 
used for it's variable, but it should be fixed in the latest versions of 
MegaPOV.

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Chris Huff
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It should be documented.

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To all patch authors who have patches in MegaPov: please check the
documentation and make sure that your patches contain full documentation.
Thanks.  Please send me an email if anything needs to be added and changed.
After I've waited a week or two for updates to come in, I'll (hopefully) get
a chance to update the master HTML document with these changes and upload it
again.

-Nathan

Nieminen Juha <war### [at] sarakerttunencstutfi> wrote...
>   It should be documented.
>
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> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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On 1 Mar 2000 11:11:53 -0500, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>  It should be documented.

It is documented, but I chose to follow the order of the original
docs when laying out the Superpatch docs, so it's documented with
the global settings instead of as part of the blurred reflection
patch.  I'm still not sure that's the wrong approach, but some 
overview documentation like the first half of the original docs
would be in order.

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Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
:>  It should be documented.

: It is documented

  Why then I can't find it? Searching for "reflection_blur_max" gives no
hits.

warp@sarakerttunen:/usr/oma/warp/docs>grep "reflection_blur_max" megapov.html 
warp@sarakerttunen:/usr/oma/warp/docs>

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On 2 Mar 2000 04:38:37 -0500, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
>:>  It should be documented.
>
>: It is documented
>
>  Why then I can't find it? Searching for "reflection_blur_max" gives no
>hits.

Hm.  Well, it _was_ documented, in the superpatch docs.  The last version
of MegaPOV just included those wholesale; I can't seem to find them online
anymore, so now I don't know.

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I think I have a copy of the old doc at home If this interest you
e-mail me :)

Fabian.


> 
> Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
> :>  It should be documented.
> 
> : It is documented
> 
>   Why then I can't find it? Searching for "reflection_blur_max" gives no
> hits.
> 
> warp@sarakerttunen:/usr/oma/warp/docs>grep "reflection_blur_max" megapov.html
> warp@sarakerttunen:/usr/oma/warp/docs>
> 
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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