On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:06:24 -0400, Slime wrote:
> Well, it makes sense that it may happen when the rays have extremely low
> slopes (that is, they go over 1 unit in the X direction for every 100000 or
> so units in the Z direction), but why does it happen with an orthographic
> camera? At only a distance of about 1000 units? Surely POV can handle more
> than four decimals.

surely you realize that the distance of an orthographic camera is meaningless.

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#macro R(L P)sphere{L F}cylinder{L P F}#end#macro P(V)merge{R(z+a z)R(-z a-z)R(a
-z-z-z a+z)torus{1F clipped_by{plane{a 0}}}translate V}#end#macro Z(a F T)merge{
P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbt 1}hollow interior{media{emission T}}finish{
reflection.1}}#end Z(-x-x.2y)Z(-x-x.4x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90}

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