Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:

> I think it is a bug, although the photon FAQ mentions that
> the photon method is not very well suited for planar objects
> with an ior close to 1.0. You might wish to report this
> under http://bugs.povray.org/.

Done

> As a workaround, splitting the slide object into strips
> seems to help, although you may then need a higher photon
> count to avoid artefacts:
>
> union
> {
>    box {<0,0.0,0>, <1,0.1,0.01>}
>    box {<0,0.1,0>, <1,0.2,0.01>}
....

Thanks very much, this workaround seems to work for me too.

Corvin

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