POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.bugreports : hidden plane issue : Re: hidden plane issue Server Time
18 Apr 2024 19:56:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: hidden plane issue  
From: gnagflow
Date: 25 Jan 2019 10:45:00
Message: <web.5c4b2e7c12ed4887497c656a0@news.povray.org>
> This is a simple precision issue: The camera does not "see" geometry
> that is too close to the camera's location (or, more precisely, the
> rays' origin). With the camera being very close to the red plane, a
> circular patch of it therefore disappears.
>
> Increase the scale of your entire scene and you should be fine.

I was ray-tracing scenes close to the surface of the earth (but not too
close to be aproximated by a flat plane where curvature no longer matters).
Is there another way to increase the precision?

Thx


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