"avant" <avant> wrote:
> "MichaelJF" <mi-### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> > "MichaelJF" <mi-### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> > > "avant" <avant> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I have written the following simple code for isosurface. It looks fine but the
> > > > surface is not smooth.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Do you use anti aliasing?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Michael
> >
> > Sorry, I was in a hurry as I posted the first time and I wanted to give you a
> > quick hint. I rendered your example without anti aliasing (aa) and with the
> > aa-standard shipped with the Windows version. The first test yielded annoying
> > "steps" at the curved surface, the second a much more smooth result.  If you are
> > a Linux user, you should use an ini-file to specify the aa-settings. Something
> > like this should help:
> >
> > Antialias=on
> >
> > Antialias_Threshold=0.3
> > Antialias_Depth=9
> > Input_File_Name=isotest.pov
> >
> > Width=1920
> > Height=1080
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Michael
>
> Hello Michael,
> Thanks for the help. I will try using antialiasing. Were you able to get smooth
> surface with your code?
>
> Regards
> Avan

Yes indeed, I stated this above (the second test). The aa-feature ist explained
within the pov docs exhaustively
(http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Tracing_Options#Anti-Aliasing_Options).

Best regards,
Michael

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