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48 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | All | Low | High | CSG bounding box computation broken with shearing trans ... | Closed | |
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Task Description
Bounding box computation for CSG intersection appears to be broken when one member is an arbitrarily transformed plane.
POV-Ray 3.6.2 has the same problem (can’t test for 3.6.1).
// +W640 +H480 +MB1
#include "transforms.inc"
camera {
location <-0.2, 0.5, -4.0>
direction 1.5*z
right x*image_width/image_height
look_at <0.0, 0.0, 0.0>
}
sky_sphere {
pigment {
gradient y
color_map {
[0.0 rgb <0.6,0.7,1.0>]
[0.7 rgb <0.0,0.1,0.8>]
}
}
}
light_source {
<0, 0, 0> // light's position (translated below)
color rgb <1, 1, 1> // light's color
translate <-30, 30, -30>
}
plane {
y, -1
pigment { color rgb <0.7,0.5,0.3> }
}
intersection {
sphere {
0.0, 1 }
plane { -x, 0 transform { Shear_Trans(x,y+x*0.3,z) } }
texture {
pigment {
radial
frequency 8
color_map {
[0.00 color rgb <1.0,0.4,0.2> ]
[0.33 color rgb <0.2,0.4,1.0> ]
[0.66 color rgb <0.4,1.0,0.2> ]
[1.00 color rgb <1.0,0.4,0.2> ]
}
}
finish{
specular 0.6
}
}
rotate -y*5
}
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53 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 32 | Very Low | Medium | Blob trace level | Closed | |
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Task Description
It appears that reflective bounces from blobs are not incrementing the trace level, causing self- reflecting hall of mirror portions to stall renders.
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59 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 34 | Very Low | High | Cone intersection test broken | Closed | |
3.70 beta 35 |
Task Description
The following scene, showing an almost cylindrical cone floating above a plane, renders fine in POV 3.6.2, but is obviously broken in 3.7.0.beta.34:
camera {
right x
up y*image_height/image_width
location <80,50,40>
look_at <0,0,0>
}
light_source { <500,500,500> color rgb 1 }
cone {
<0,0,30>, 11.303000, <0,0,-30>, 11.302999
texture { pigment { color rgb 1 } }
}
plane { y, -20 texture { pigment { color rgb 0.3 } } }
The error occurs even with the -MB option, indicating that the problem has nothing to do with bounding, but is in the cone intersection testing code.
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62 | Geometric Primitives | Feature Request | Not applicable | Very Low | Low | Set and get font metrics | Closed | |
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Task Description
Add a way to get and set font metrics.
Attached an image that shows what I’m talking about.
Thanks!!
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63 | Geometric Primitives | Feature Request | Not applicable | Very Low | Low | Extend native support for 2D primitives | Closed | |
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Task Description
Improve native support for 2D primitives. Ideally a 1:1 mapping of SVG primitives/shapes. They go a long way to making diagrams look a lot better. Having to create image maps based on externally created bitmaps slows the workflow down a lot!
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77 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 35 | Very Low | High | Cone is not on good place when first base point is lowe ... | Closed | |
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Task Description
Cone is not on good place when first base point is lower then end cap point. Example:
cone { <0, 0, 0>, 2, <0, 1, 0>, 1 } - good
cone { <0, 0, 0>, 1, <0, 1, 0>, 2 } - bad
This is on 3.7 beta 35 version.
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92 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 36 | Low | High | Sphere_Sweep Bug | Closed | |
3.70 beta 37 |
Task Description
This item may need to be merged with item FS#81. This is another sphere sweep bug, though they are of different spline types.
The code is
#include "colors.inc"
camera {
location <0, 0.0, -4.0>
direction 1.5*z
right x*image_width/image_height
look_at <0.0, 0.0, 0.0>
}
light_source {
<0, 0, 0> // light's position (translated below)
color rgb <1, 1, 1> // light's color
translate <-30, 30, -30>
}
#declare i_start = 0;
#declare i_stop = 3;
#declare i_step = 0.05;
#declare i_inc = i_start;
sphere_sweep {
linear_spline // linear curve
(i_stop - i_start)/i_step + 1, // number of specified sphere positions
#while(i_inc<=i_stop)
#declare y_coor = 0.23*sin(7.1*i_inc);
<i_inc, y_coor, 0>, 0.05
#declare i_inc = i_inc + i_step;
#end
pigment{color Orange}
}
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132 | Geometric Primitives | Feature Request | 3.70 beta 37a | Very Low | Low | Native support for mesh-based surface approximations | Closed | |
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Task Description
There are various scripts around the Net meant for approximating things like isosurfaces and parametric objects using meshes. It would probably run bit faster and be easier to use if this were supported natively within Povray. The feature would require an additional object parameter in order to toggle this behavior on/off.
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162 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.6 | Very Low | Low | Character 101 (0x65) not found in /usr/share/fonts/true ... | Closed | |
3.70 beta 39 |
Task Description
The text object isn’t working with /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf. Used to work - taken from an old .pov file of mine.
Rebuilt from http://www.povray.org/redirect/www.povray.org/ftp/pub/povray/Official/Unix/povray-3.6.tar.bz2
$ povray +ifonttest.pov +ofonttest.png
Persistence of Vision™ Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (g++ 4.4.3 @ x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) This is an unofficial version compiled by: darxus [at] chaosreignscom
.....
File: fonttest.pov Line: 8 Parse Warning: Character 101 (0×65) not found in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf File: fonttest.pov Line: 8 Parse Warning: Character 115 (0×73) not found in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
Verification that the problem is not in the .ttf file, this works (imagemagick):
convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 48 -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf label:test fonttest.png
Problem verified when compiled from source on Ubuntu Lucid. Also exists in Ubuntu binaries from Lucid and Hardy.
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171 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.62 | Very Low | Low | CSG bounding box computation broken with shearing trans ... | Closed | |
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Task Description
Bounding box computation for CSG intersection appears to be broken when one member is an arbitrarily transformed plane.
// +W640 +H480 +MB1
#include "transforms.inc"
camera {
location <-0.2, 0.5, -4.0>
direction 1.5*z
right x*image_width/image_height
look_at <0.0, 0.0, 0.0>
}
sky_sphere {
pigment {
gradient y
color_map {
[0.0 rgb <0.6,0.7,1.0>]
[0.7 rgb <0.0,0.1,0.8>]
}
}
}
light_source {
<0, 0, 0> // light's position (translated below)
color rgb <1, 1, 1> // light's color
translate <-30, 30, -30>
}
plane {
y, -1
pigment { color rgb <0.7,0.5,0.3> }
}
intersection {
sphere {
0.0, 1 }
plane { -x, 0 transform { Shear_Trans(x,y+x*0.3,z) } }
texture {
pigment {
radial
frequency 8
color_map {
[0.00 color rgb <1.0,0.4,0.2> ]
[0.33 color rgb <0.2,0.4,1.0> ]
[0.66 color rgb <0.4,1.0,0.2> ]
[1.00 color rgb <1.0,0.4,0.2> ]
}
}
finish{
specular 0.6
}
}
rotate -y*5
}
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186 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC1 | Very Low | Low | numeric precision problem with polygon start/end points | Closed | |
3.70 RC2 |
Task Description
polygon objects comprised of multiple “sub-polygons” don’t work properly if start/end points of sub-polygons do not exactly match, as can be demonstrated by the following code:
#default { texture { pigment { rgb 1 } finish { ambient 1.0} } }
camera {
orthographic
up 3.5*y
right 3.5*x*image_width/image_height
location <0,0,-4>
look_at <0,0,0>
}
polygon { 8,
// outer triangle
0.70 * < cos( 0 *pi/180),sin( 0 *pi/180),0>
0.70 * < cos(120 *pi/180),sin(120 *pi/180),0>
0.70 * < cos(240 *pi/180),sin(240 *pi/180),0>
0.70 * < cos(360 *pi/180),sin(360 *pi/180),0>
// inner triangle
0.35 * < cos( 0 *pi/180),sin( 0 *pi/180),0>
0.35 * < cos(120 *pi/180),sin(120 *pi/180),0>
0.35 * < cos(240 *pi/180),sin(240 *pi/180),0>
0.35 * < cos(360 *pi/180),sin(360 *pi/180),0>
}
Note that the end points /should/ be identical. There are however some minor rounding differences, which mess up polygon computations. Compare with the following code, which leads to the desired results:
polygon { 8,
// outer triangle
0.70 * < cos( 0 *pi/180),sin( 0 *pi/180),0>
0.70 * < cos(120 *pi/180),sin(120 *pi/180),0>
0.70 * < cos(240 *pi/180),sin(240 *pi/180),0>
0.70 * < cos( 0 *pi/180),sin( 0 *pi/180),0>
// inner triangle
0.35 * < cos( 0 *pi/180),sin( 0 *pi/180),0>
0.35 * < cos(120 *pi/180),sin(120 *pi/180),0>
0.35 * < cos(240 *pi/180),sin(240 *pi/180),0>
0.35 * < cos( 0 *pi/180),sin( 0 *pi/180),0>
}
Code inspection shows that the polygon insideness testing code tests for precise equality of the points, whereas the general policy of POV-Ray is to accept slight rounding differences.
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200 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC3 | Very Low | Low | Calibri TrueType font garbled | Closed | |
3.70 RC4 |
Task Description
original post on povray.beta-test:
POV-Ray 3.7.0.RC3 on Slackware 13.0 x86_64.
I pointed povray to use the calibri.ttf font over on my Windows 7 partition.
The result is garbled - strange letters with accents appear instead of the
expected text. (KDE's kfontview opens calibri.ttf OK, with nothing strange).
Pointing povray to use other fonts of Win7, e.g. comic.ttf and arial.ttf, was
OK.
I solved the problem by pushing calibri.ttf through fontforge and resaving it
as mycalibri.ttf.
Cheers,
Peter
Confirmed with development version on Windows XP x64.
Possibly a similar problem as FS#162 .
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209 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC3 | Very Low | Medium | Weighted texture of CSG | Closed | |
3.70 RC4 |
Task Description
in change #3319, csg got a new computation for its weighted textures.
But I’m confused by the computation of the weight: (circa end of csg.cpp file)
COLC weight = 1.0f / min(COLC(textures.size() - firstinserted), 1.0f);
I would have used a max() rather than a min().
It is transparent when there is only one texture, but:
should there be no texture (an error...): it would be a division by 0
should there be more than 1, the weight of each would be 1. which is without consequence UNLESS there is already some other textures in the list. The right value (from previous code) was 1/n
Or did I get a confusion about min() ?
min(0,1) == 0 min(4,1) == 1
Using max would protect against the division by 0 and the right value when multiple textures are used.
Any thought ?
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210 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC3 | Low | Medium | UV mapping broken for parametric | Closed | |
3.70 RC4 |
Task Description
UV-mapped textures for parametrics are broken in POV-Ray 3.70 RC3, in cases where two (or more) parametrics overlap in a scene.
In the following scene, note how the texture per se is always taken properly from whichever parametric is in front, while the UV coordinates are erroneously taken always from the red parametric where both overlap, no matter whether it is in front or back.
camera {
location <0.0, 1.5, -3.0>
direction 1.5*z
right x*image_width/image_height
look_at 0
}
light_source { <-30, 30, -30> color rgb 1 }
#declare Param = parametric {
function { u*v*sin (15*v) },
function { v },
function { u*v*cos (15*v) }
0, 1
contained_by { box { -1,1 } }
accuracy 0.002
precompute 15 x,y,z
rotate 180*x
translate <0.3,0.5,0>
}
object {
Param
uv_mapping
texture {
pigment {
gradient x frequency 3
color_map {
[0 color red .5 ]
[1 color red 1 ]
}
}
}
}
object {
Param
uv_mapping
texture {
pigment {
gradient x frequency 7
color_map {
[0 color green .5 ]
[1 color green 1 ]
}
}
}
rotate y*180
}
POV-Ray 3.62 renders the scene properly.
As this bug has been found during code inspection, the uderlying cause has already been identified; I’m currently working on a fix.
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223 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC3 | Very Low | Low | Artifacts in thin torus | Closed | |
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Task Description
Thin tori exhibit artifacts in 3.7.0 RC3 when the camera is placed inside the torus close to its “center plane”, as can be demonstrated with the following scene:
camera {
location <0.0, 0.0, -0.5>
direction 1.5*z
right x*image_width/image_height
look_at <0.0, 0.0, 0.0>
angle 1
}
light_source { <-30, 30, -30> color rgb 1 }
torus {
1, 0.001
texture { pigment { color red 1 } }
}
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267 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC6 | Very Low | Medium | Bug in "sor" Primitive Leads to Random Black Artefacts ... | Closed | |
3.70 RC7 |
Task Description
Recently, I have been rendering an animation with POV-Ray 3.7 RC 6 using radiosity, photons and backside illumination. Many frames contained artefacts like in the attached image file. Trying to eliminate those artefacts I observed the following:
Rendering the same frame several times did not reproduce the artefacts or reproduced them differently. I.e., when I rendered a second (third, fourth, ...) time with +SF100 +EF100, the black space in the image was somewhere else or in some cases disappeared.
With radiosity turned off, no such artefacts have happened since, even in the scenes where they happened with radiosity turned on.
Turning off photons with radiosity still turned on did not remove the artefacts.
Rendering with one thread on one CPU core instead of two threads on two cores did not change anything except the rendering time.
Changing the radiosity settings I have not tried thoroughly, but at least raising or lowering count or error_bound does not seem to have any effect on this.
While POV-Ray was rendering, no other memory-intensive or CPU-intensive programs were running and POV-Ray itself did not report any error (just the usual warnings that some of the used features could change in future versions etc.). Render priotity was set to “high”.
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294 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC7 | Very Low | High | Thread safety issue in functions using splines. 3.7.0.R ... | Closed | |
3.70 release |
Task Description
Thread safety issue in functions using splines. 3.7.0.RC7.
First vetting in p.bugreports where several users were able to reproduce the fail on the following systems:
1) Ubuntu 12.1 i7 920 using 3.7.0.RC7 2) Ubuntu 12.04, AMD 2431 CPU, Linux 3.2.0-45 kernel using 3.7.0.RC7 (g++ 4.6 @x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) 3) POV-Ray 3.7.0.RC7 (icpc 13.1.0 @x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz
uname -or
2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 GNU/Linux
lsb_release -irc
Distributor ID: CentOS
Release: 6.3
Codename: Final
4) Confirmed with openSUSE 12.2. 5) Just to add to the system list: with Windows and a core i7 one yields the same result. 6) “Le_Forgeron” ran under Intel Inspector (XE 2013) and provided this feedback :
...
that might be less than 60 seconds, but with Intel Inspector (XE 2013),
it becomes 42:50 (just 14 data races, oh well, that's just so friendly).
ID Type Sources Modules State
P1 Data race isosurf.cpp; mutex.hpp povray New
P2 Data race mutex.hpp; povms.cpp povray New
P3 Data race povray.cpp povray New
P4 Data race povray.cpp povray New
P5 Data race mutex.hpp; pov_mem.cpp; splines.cpp povray New
P6 Data race mutex.hpp; pov_mem.cpp; splines.cpp povray New
P7 Data race mutex.hpp; pov_mem.cpp; splines.cpp povray New
P8 Data race recursive_mutex.hpp; scene.cpp; task.cpp; taskqueue.cpp;
view.cpp povray New
P9 Data race condition_variable.hpp; vfe.cpp; vfesession.cpp povray New
P10 Data race condition_variable.hpp; unixconsole.cpp; vfesession.cpp
povray New
P11 Data race condition_variable.hpp; unixconsole.cpp; vfesession.cpp
povray New
P12 Data race unixconsole.cpp; vfesession.cpp; vfesession.h povray New
P13 Data race unixconsole.cpp; vfesession.cpp povray New
P14 Data race [Unknown]; unixconsole.cpp; vfesession.cpp
libboost_thread.so.1.49.0; povray New
Numbers 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14 are related to the handling
of session (and occur once or twice only, excepted #8, four times).
Number 1 is about isosurface (adjusting gradient at isosurf.cpp:1099 vs
1098 (testing its value), and copying the isosurface) (IMHO, rendering
threads updating the object... not the best move without some
atomic/protection (and not sure a DBL is/can be atomic)) (occurs 2505
times).
Number 5, 6 and 7 are about splines
* sp->Cache_Type & Cache_Point, splines.cpp :803 vs :814/815 (2024 times)
* sp->Cache_Valid, :805 vs :813 vs :904 (1770 times)
* sp->Cache_Data, :807 vs :903 (5025 times)
Only my 0.02¢ (yes, very cheap), but it seems to confirm
For test code see attached files or SplineThreadSafety.pov attachment to p.bugreports and images were posted to p.b.images.
Issue shows up any time more than one thread is used. Use of AA tends to hide the problem so do not use it if using the output image for testing.
Thanks. Bill P.
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298 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC7 | Very Low | Low | the warning for isosurface does not appears as often as ... | Closed | |
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Task Description
From synthetic post of Cousin Ricky in p.beta-test, 2013-06-24 circa 3:19 pm (MST)
William F Pokorny anonymous@anonymous.org wrote: > It seems to be the case the gradient warnings are only generated if the > isosurface is naked. If it is wrapped in an object as was the case with > my thread safety example, we get no warnings.
Confirmed. If only I still had the concentration required to investigate computer code.
#version 3.7;
#ifndef (MG) #declare MG = 40/9; #end
#ifndef (Naked) #declare Naked = no; #end
global_settings
{ assumed_gamma 1
radiosity {} //force isosurface calculations from all directions
}
light_source { <-3.3125, 7.6250, -5.7374>, rgb 1 }
camera
{ location <0.0000, 1.0000, -5.6713>
look_at <-0.7969, 1.2000, -0.0598>
angle 10.7447
}
#include "functions.inc"
#if (Naked)
isosurface
{ function { f_sphere (x, 0, z, (2660 - 40*y) / 9) }
contained_by { box { <-80, 31, -24>, <-128, 56, 24> } }
max_gradient MG
pigment { rgb <1, 0.75, 0> }
scale 1/128
rotate -35 * x
translate y
}
#else
#declare Test = isosurface
{ function { f_sphere (x, 0, z, (2660 - 40*y) / 9) }
contained_by { box { <-80, 31, -24>, <-128, 56, 24> } }
max_gradient MG
pigment { rgb <1, 0.75, 0> }
scale 1/128
rotate -35 * x
translate y
}
object { Test }
#end
On the command line, try:
declare=MG=1 declare=Naked=1
and
declare=MG=1 declare=Naked=0
To lose the warning, I had to declare the isosurface. Just wrapping the naked isosurface in an object{} generated a warning.
Further analysis
isCopy seems to be intended to avoid displaying the same warning over and over for the same isosurface (as duplicated isosurface indeed are not copied but reference the same sub-structure).
#declare Ob = isosurface{...}; that’s not a copy object {Ob ... } that’s a copy
Previously (3.6.1) the warning was displayed at the destruction of the isosurface (when the sub-structure was actually referenced by no one else)
if((Stage == STAGE_SHUTDOWN) && (mginfo->refcnt == 0))
In 3.7, isCopy was introduced with change 4707, 16th February 2009, along with the change introducing means for objects to submit message on shutdown. It was reported in windows source with change 4714, 21th February 2009.
If the symptom “isosurface embbeded in object (CSG) does not show the warning” is correct, it might be a “feature/bug”. The parser copied the isosurface object and deleted the original before the render started. When the render ends, it find only copies and because the refcnt is not used anymore (for that purpose), it miss the last remaining true data to display.
Instead of isCopy, what about adding in mginfo a boolean “printed_warning” (actual name should be more appropriate), set to false on creation, and turn to true on the first call (instead of last for 3.6.1) of the warning displaying function (test for false, set to true if false) ? (and dropping isCopy in the process)
For instance, i’m afraid the following sequence would fails with current code:
#declare Foo = isosurface{ ... }; #declare Bar = object { Foo ... }; #undef Foo;
(or any pop of #local context, such as building the isosurface via macro or loop, or replacing the value of a previous #declare/#local )
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305 | Geometric Primitives | Feature Request | 3.70 RC7 | Very Low | Low | remove maximum component limit for blobs | Closed | |
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Task Description
Blobs are currently limited to 1,000,000 components (with each cylindrical component counting as three: one cylinder + two end hemispheres); this limit may have served a historic purpose, but is now entirely arbitrary: The remaining code is limited only by the available RAM and the numeric limits of the int data type. The arbitrary maximum components limit per blob should therefore be removed.
Aside from unnecessarily limiting the power of the blob component, another drawback of the current test is that it is only performed after parsing of all the blob’s components, potentially hours after the limit had actually been reached.
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308 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC7 | Very Low | Medium | Heightfield computation from color (not palette) red/gr ... | Closed | |
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Task Description
Due to a recent thread in povray.general (7th September 2013), I dive into the code of height field creation.
There is 2 TODO in source/backend/support/imageutil.cpp, for image_height_at() (circa line 512)
The first one is about using the index of palette-image: As far as *257 would indeed perform a better job to cover the full range than *256, it would break backward compatibility with previous versions of povray (3.6 included) which only promoted the index as the Most significant byte, keeping the least one at 0.
But on the second one, the new formula is plain wrong: (r*255+g)*255 should be (r*256+g)*255. In previous versions, r*255 was the Most significant byte, and g*255 was the least one. Ergo, the value was r*255*256 + g*255, which can and should be only factored as (r*256+g)*255;
I know it is damn late in the release schedule, but can that be either be fixed before final official delivery or a memo added to the release note that it would be fixed later and backward-bug will not be maintained for that specific point (using rgb-8 or less bit per channel-image for height field)
(it was not bugged in 3.6.1 nor before, it’s just that tiny little bit of 3.7 that would should that bug)
If you look carefully at the attached pictures (povray +I... +H700 +W700 +A0.01) of scene and scene36, there is a significant difference at the top. With 3.6, it matched exactly (hence the noise on the top pixels row) the view. With 3.7, it cannot reach the top and leave a white area (another difference is the slope on the side are also a bit more lower with 3.7, easier to spot when alternating the display of both pictures)
If you want to regenerate hf.png, it was rendered with povray 3.7RC7, +W400 +H400 +A0.01 +Ihf.pov
The white line at the bottom is expected, as the minimal value of the height field is “full green”
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315 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 release | Very Low | Low | inverse keyword does not work properly with quadrics | Closed | |
3.71 release |
Task Description
As the following scene demonstrates, the “inverse” keyword produces unexpected results with quadrics.
Left: a sphere primitive as reference Right: a sphere-shaped quadric primitive (sphere-shaped)
Top: plain Bottom: inverse
The objects are clipped in half to better demonstrate the effect. Regular texture is shown in white, interior_texture in red; the surface normal of a selected point (blue) as returned by trace() is shown in green.
Note how the sphere’s surface normal, as well as the textures, are flipped when “inverse” is used (this is the intended standard behaviour of all objects), while the quadric’s normal and textures erroneously remain uchanged.
// +w800 +h600
#version 3.7;
global_settings{ assumed_gamma 1.0 }
#default{ finish { ambient 0.1 diffuse 0.9 specular 0.5 }}
camera {
perspective
angle 40
right x*image_width/image_height
location <0,0,-10>
look_at <0,0,0>
}
light_source{ < 1000,3000,-3000> color rgb 1 }
background { color rgb 0.5 }
#declare T_White = texture { pigment { color rgb 1 } }
#declare T_Red = texture { pigment { color red 1 } }
#declare T_Green = texture { pigment { color green 1 } }
#declare T_Blue = texture { pigment { color blue 1 } }
#declare TopLeft = sphere { 0, 1 }
#declare BottomLeft = sphere { 0, 1 inverse }
#declare TopRight = quadric { <1,1,1>, <0,0,0>, <0,0,0>, -1 }
#declare BottomRight = quadric { <1,1,1>, <0,0,0>, <0,0,0>, -1 inverse }
#macro Mac(Obj, P, D)
union {
#local N = <0,0,0>;
#local O = <-0.6,0.4,-10>;
#local Q = trace(Obj, O, D, N);
#if (vlength(N) > 0)
sphere { Q, 0.05 texture { T_Blue } }
cylinder { Q, Q + N, 0.02 texture { T_Green } }
#else
cylinder { O, O + D*10000, 0.02 texture { T_Red } }
#end
object { Obj texture { T_White } interior_texture { T_Red } clipped_by { box { <-1,-1,-1>, <0,1,1> rotate y*30 } } }
translate P
}
#end
Mac(TopLeft, <-1.2, 1.2, 0>, z)
Mac(TopRight, < 1.2, 1.2, 0>, z)
Mac(BottomLeft, <-1.2,-1.2, 0>, z)
Mac(BottomRight, < 1.2,-1.2, 0>, z)
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316 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 release | Very Low | Low | inverse keyword does not work properly with fractals | Closed | |
3.71 release |
Task Description
As the following scene demonstrates, the “inverse” keyword produces unexpected results with fractals.
Left: a sphere primitive as reference Right: a julia fractal
Top: plain Bottom: inverse
The objects are clipped in half to better demonstrate the effect. Regular texture is shown in white, interior_texture in red; the surface normal of a selected point (blue) as returned by trace() is shown in green.
Note how the sphere’s surface normal, as well as the textures, are flipped when “inverse” is used (this is the intended standard behaviour of all objects), while the fractal’s normal and textures erroneously remain uchanged.
// +w800 +h600
#version 3.7;
global_settings{ assumed_gamma 1.0 }
#default{ finish { ambient 0.1 diffuse 0.9 specular 0.5 }}
camera {
perspective
angle 40
right x*image_width/image_height
location <0,0,-10>
look_at <0,0,0>
}
light_source{ < 1000,3000,-3000> color rgb 1 }
background { color rgb 0.5 }
#declare T_White = texture { pigment { color rgb 1 } }
#declare T_Red = texture { pigment { color red 1 } }
#declare T_Green = texture { pigment { color green 1 } }
#declare T_Blue = texture { pigment { color blue 1 } }
#declare TopLeft = sphere { 0, 1 }
#declare BottomLeft = object { TopLeft inverse }
#declare TopRight = julia_fractal{ <-0.083,0.0,-0.83,-0.025> quaternion sqr max_iteration 8 precision 20 scale 0.9 }
#declare BottomRight = object { TopRight inverse }
#macro Mac(Obj, P, D)
union {
#local N = <0,0,0>;
#local O = <-0.6,0.4,-10>;
#local Q = trace(Obj, O, D, N);
#if (vlength(N) > 0)
sphere { Q, 0.05 texture { T_Blue } }
cylinder { Q, Q + N, 0.02 texture { T_Green } }
#else
cylinder { O, O + D*10000, 0.02 texture { T_Red } }
#end
object { Obj texture { T_White } interior_texture { T_Red } clipped_by { box { <-2,-2,-2>, <0,2,2> rotate y*30 } } }
translate P
}
#end
Mac(TopLeft, <-1.2, 1.2, 0>, z)
Mac(TopRight, < 1.2, 1.2, 0>, z)
Mac(BottomLeft, <-1.2,-1.2, 0>, z)
Mac(BottomRight, < 1.2,-1.2, 0>, z)
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331 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 release | Very Low | Medium | Intersection causes quadric to disappear | Closed | |
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Task Description
The following paraboloid renders correctly:
intersection
{ quadric { <1, 0, 1>, <0, 0, 0>, <0, 1, 0>, -1 }
cylinder { 0, y, 1 }
}
However, when I extend the clipping cylinder downward:
intersection
{ quadric { <1, 0, 1>, <0, 0, 0>, <0, 1, 0>, -1 }
cylinder { -y, y, 1 }
}
the object disappears completely in POV-Ray 3.7 and 3.7.1. In POV-Ray 3.6.1, it renders as expected.
POV-Ray 3.7.0.unofficial (self-compiled with g++ 4.8, but completely unaltered) POV-Ray 3.7.1-alpha.8150025.unofficial openSUSE 13.2 GNU/Linux
This scene file illustrates the problem:
// +w480 +h240
#version 3.6; //[sic]
global_settings { assumed_gamma 1 }
camera
{ location <0, 1, -7.5958>
look_at <0, 1, 0>
right 2 * x
up y
angle 43.1038
}
#default { finish { diffuse 0.6 ambient rgb 0.15618 } }
light_source
{ <-4.3125, 9.6250, -7.4695>,
rgb 6856.3
fade_power 2 fade_distance 0.10417
spotlight point_at <0, 1, 0> radius 45 falloff 90
}
box
{ -<9, 11, 9>, <9, 11, 9>
pigment { rgb 1 }
}
plane
{ y, 0
pigment { checker rgb 0.05 rgb 1 }
}
intersection
{ quadric { <1, 0, 1>, <0, 0, 0>, <0, 1, 0>, -1 }
cylinder { 0, y, 1 }
pigment { green 0.5 }
translate <-1.25, 1, 0>
}
intersection
{ quadric { <1, 0, 1>, <0, 0, 0>, <0, 1, 0>, -1 }
cylinder { -y, y, 1 }
pigment { green 0.5 }
translate <1.25, 1, 0>
}
On the right side, there should have been a cylinder capped with a paraboloid. A thread has been started in povray.bugreports. Jerome has started to look at it.
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75 | Geometric Primitives | Unimp. Feature/TODO | 3.70 beta 34 | Very Low | Medium | Replace POV_MALLOC with std::vector in shape code | Tracked on GitHub | |
Future release |
Task Description
In the files bezier.cpp, fpmetric.cpp, fractal.cpp, hfield.cpp, isosurf.cpp, lathe.cpp, poly.cpp, polygon.cpp, prism.cpp, sor.cpp, and sphsweep.cpp the use of POV_MALLOC can be replaced by std::vector quite easily because the containing class already is a C++ class. As this is a low hanging fruit for continued code cleanup, it should be done sooner rather than later.
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26 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.61 | Very Low | Low | Artifacts rendering a cloth which has two-side textures | Tracked on GitHub | |
Future release |
Task Description
Dear PovRay maintainers and developers, congratulations for your great RayTracer!
We think that we have found a bug while we were rendering a piece of cloth.
In this piece of cloth were defined two textures, one for one side and one for the another side:
texture { mesh_tex0_0 }
interior_texture { mesh_tex0_1 }
these definitions in their original context.
We have found some artifacts in the final rendering, in concrete near some wrinkles, please, look at the attached file “render_artifacts.tga”, I have painted a big green arrow near the artifacts, maybe you’ll need to do a zoom to see them more accurately.
They are as though the texture of the other side was painted in the incorrect side.
Fortunately, we have a patch to fix this bug (thanks to Denis Steinemann, he made the implementation for PovRay 3.5, so I have adapted these changes to release 3.6.1)
Although we have found this bug in the Windows and Linux 3.6.1 releases, the patch was generated in Linux (using the source code release of “povray-3.6.1”).
To apply this patch, inside the parent folder of the directory “povray-3.6.1” execute:
patch -p0 < other_side_artifacts.patch
And the “povray-3.6.1” will be patched and you will get a console output like this:
patching file povray-3.6.1/source/lighting.cpp
patching file povray-3.6.1/source/mesh.cpp
patching file povray-3.6.1/source/render.cpp
We don’t know if this “hack” is enough smart to apply in the next release, but we think that it fixes the bug (the artifacts dissapear).
Best regards and thank you very much for your great RayTracer!
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60 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 34 | Very Low | Medium | Artifacts using prism in CSG | Tracked on GitHub | |
Future release |
Task Description
Using prisms in intersecion or difference CSG objects may cause artifacts in POV-Ray 3.6.2 as well as 3.7.0.beta.34, as demonstrated by the following code:
camera {
right -x
up y*image_height/image_width
location <-24,19,12>
look_at <0,0,0>
}
light_source { <100,200,100> color rgb 1 }
plane { y, -2 pigment { color rgb 1 } }
#declare KeyValue = 1.366; // pick any you like
difference {
prism {
linear_sweep -0.5,0.5, 4
<-3,20-17>,
<-3,KeyValue>,
<-6,-3>,
<-0,-5>
}
intersection {
cylinder { <-7,-0.51,1>, <-7, 0.51,1>, 4.0 }
plane { z, KeyValue }
}
pigment { color rgb 0.5 }
}
Apparently the surface of the other object becomes visible when it exactly coincides with a vertex of the prism; probably there is a failure of the inside() test for such values.
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81 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.62 | Very Low | Medium | sphere_sweep generating artifacts | Tracked on GitHub | |
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Task Description
I’m running POV-Ray for (64 bit) Windows v3.62 on (64 bit) Windows Vista
This pov file:
#include "colors.inc"
#include "metals.inc"
light_source { <6, 9, -21> color White }
camera { location <0, 0, -3> look_at <0, 0, 0> }
sphere_sweep {
cubic_spline
6
<-2.0, 0, 0> 0.05
<0.000,0,0> 0.2
<0.025,0,0> 0.2
<0.050,0,0> 0.2
<0.075,0,0> 0.2
<3.0,0,0> 0.2
pigment { color White }
}
Produces two strange artifacts: A disk at the center of the sweep, and a faint “halo” or veil which shows as 4 faint hyperbolas centered around the origin.
I have tried tweaking tolerance (for no other reason than I saw that someone else was tweaking it to solve a problem) but this does not seem to change things.
For a look at MY result when I run this, view this image:
Alain reports the same behavior in the latest version: “It’s still there with the latest version: 3.7 beta 35a.” This MAY move the status to “confirmed”, but I can’t do that
Someone else says that changing the scale (!) “solves” the problem by moving the disk and the halo offscreen, but that sounds like a bad idea to me.
-Jeff Evarts, first-time POVRay bug reporter
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87 | Geometric Primitives | Feature Request | Not applicable | Defer | Very Low | Add new feature: Reference object | Tracked on GitHub | |
Future release |
Task Description
When you instantiate an object several times, eg:
object { MyObj translate -x*10 }
object { MyObj translate x*10 }
POV-Ray will copy that object in memory, at least for most types of objects. Not for all of them, though. Most famously if MyObj is a mesh, it won’t be copied, but only a reference to the original will be used, thus saving memory. (There are a few other primitives which also don’t cause a copy, such as bicubic_patch and blob, but those are naturally not so popular as mesh, so it’s a less known fact.)
AFAIK the reason why referencing (rather than copying) is not used for all types of objects is rather complicated, and mostly related to how transformations are applied to these objects. For example if the object being instantiated is a union, the translates above will be (AFAIK) applied to the individual members of the union rather than to the union object itself.
Copying, however, can be quite detrimental in some situations. For example if you have a huge union, and you want to instantiate it many times, the memory usage will be that many times larger (compared to just one instance). This is sometimes something which the user would not want, even if it made the rendering slightly slower as a consequence. (In other words, better to be able to render the scene in the first place, rather than running out of memory.)
Redesigning POV-Ray so that all objects would be referenced rather than copied would probably be a huge job, and in some cases a questionable one. There probably are situations where the current method really produces faster rendering times, so redesigning POV-Ray so that it would always reference instead of copy, could make some scenes render slower.
So this got me thinking about an alternative approach: How hard would it be to create a special object which sole purpose is to act as a reference to another object, without copying it? This special reference object would act as any regular object, would have its own transformation matrix and all that data related to objects, but its sole purpose is to simply be a “wrapper” which references an existing object. It could be, for example, like this:
object_ref { MyObj translate -x*10 }
object_ref { MyObj translate x*10 }
The end result would be exactly identical as earlier, but the difference is that now MyObj behaves in the same way as a mesh (in the sense that it’s not instantiated twice, but only once, even though it appears twice in the scene), regardless of what MyObj is.
In some cases this might render slightly slower than the first version (because POV-Ray has to apply the transformations of the object_ref first, after which it applies whatever transformations are inside MyObj), but that’s not the point here. The point is to save memory if MyObj is large.
An object_ref would behave like any other object, so you could do things like:
#declare MyObjRef = object_ref { MyObj };
object { MyObjRef translate -x*10 }
object { MyObjRef translate x*10 }
(The only thing being instantiated (and copied) here is the “MyObjRef” object, not the object it’s referring to, so that actual object is still stored in memory only once.)
In some situations it might even be so that referenced objects actually render faster than if the objects were copied because references increase data locality, lessening cache misses.
I believe this could be a rather useful feature and should be seriously considered, unless there are some major obstacles in implementing it.
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133 | Geometric Primitives | Feature Request | 3.70 beta 37a | Defer | Very Low | Subdivision support | Tracked on GitHub | |
Future release |
Task Description
Someone built a version of Povray with internal support for automatic subdivision of meshes. See:
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~xwu/Pov-Sub/
Would like to see this feature added natively to Povray.
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202 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC3 | Very Low | Low | Numerical oddities in Julia_Fractal | Tracked on GitHub | |
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Task Description
I understand that some things have changed in the way certain computations in POV-Ray decide when something is “good enough” and I think this is biting me in Julia_Fractal (where, of course, the highest-resolution computations are needed).
The bug has been posted here:
http://news.povray.org/povray.bugreports/thread/%3Cweb.4dbf2e26b56a53c15b4449250%40news.povray.org%3E/
Including a short .pov file and instructions that reproduce it.
(It pops up in other configurations and view angles as well, but this one captures in in a way that makes it clear it’s a bug: the distance of the camera from the origin appears to change the shape of the rendered object).
This appeared first on a Windows Server 2003 machine, it is apparently confirmable on at least one other system as per that thread.
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222 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC3 | Very Low | Low | incorrect render of CSG merge with radiosity | Tracked on GitHub | |
Future release |
Task Description
The problem arises when I am trying to trace a radiosity scene without conventional lighting that has a GSG merge object. There are a coincident surfaces, but these surfaces are first merged, then the texture applied. The texture is a simple solig color non-transfluent pigment, default normal, default finish etc..
Problem consists when adding antialiasing, changing resolution, changing camera view-point etc.; when I replace merge with union, the problem disappeared.
The scene was checked on two different machines with different versions of POV-Ray:
Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.39-r3, i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel, 2G RAM (this is Dell PowerEdge 2650 server with 2 dual-core Intel Xeon MP processors); Persistence of Vision™ Ray Tracer Version 3.7.0.RC3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 4.5.3 @ i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.37-r4, x86_64 AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350, 2G RAM (non-branded machine); Persistence of Vision™ Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 4.4.4 @ x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
(scene has been adapted slightly to be rendered with 3.6, the adaptation was to change “emission” with “ambient” and replace gamma “srgb” with “2.2”)
Both machines generate similar images.
The attachment is an archive containing sources of minimal scenes with these problems, and sample pictures I generated from them on my machines.
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226 | Geometric Primitives | Possible Bug | 3.70 RC3 | Very Low | Low | Near-coincident surface accuracy | Tracked on GitHub | |
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Task Description
This is a transparent box very close to a plane.
box {
-1, 1
pigment { rgbf <0, 0, 1, 1> }
}
plane {
#if (version < 3.7)
y, -1.0000007
#else
y, -1.00007
#end
pigment { rgb 1 }
finish { ambient 1 }
}
camera {
location <1, 2, 3>
look_at 0
}
The box is placed 100 times closer to the plane for 3.6, but both 3.6 and 3.7 produce exactly the same black artifact (attached).
So apparently 3.7 is less accurate. (And the exact factor 100 feels suspicious.)
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240 | Geometric Primitives | Feature Request | 3.70 RC3 | Very Low | Low | Object for efficient automatic periodic pavement | Tracked on GitHub | |
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Task Description
Whenever some object is to be periodically repeated in some kind of grid, you can achieve this with macros, but it a) wastes a lot of resources
even if object references are implemented in the future, wrapper with its own transformation matrix still takes space and bookkeeping
b) is not infinite
annoying when making infinite planar tiling with arbitrary objects
like an approximate water surface or tiling with real bricks
or anything that needs to extend to horizon
c) is not optimized for periodicity
I think it can be very efficiently implemented as an object that takes a finite object argument (like CSG functions) and can be periodic in either 1D,2D or (possibly dangeorous?) 3D with specified period. In each dimension, the number of repetitions can be any integer or even infinity (or max_int). Something like periodicity <2,2,Infinity> 2 copies in 1 direction, 2 in the other, infinite in the third grid_separation <1,2,2> 1 unit size in first direction, 2 unit sizes in the other two
All the code needs to do is raytrace in the current unit cell and if the ray passes uninterrupted, pass it through the neighbouring unit cell (which means trace a translated ray through the same object). The object itself would just feel an additional clipping box, everything else would work seamlessly.
In case of infinite column of transparent object, max_trace stops the infinite loop anyway.
This is just a suggestion, I realize this is more of a long-term change but it is quite easy to implement and would simplify a large number of projects.
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243 | Geometric Primitives | Unimp. Feature/TODO | All | Defer | Low | Sphere sweep behaves wrong when scaled | Tracked on GitHub | |
Future release |
Task Description
The sphere_sweep renders well when specified directly, but when it is scaled, its bounding box is calculated incorrectly, which clips the object so it almost disappears.
The effect is present for all three types of splines.
I’m attaching a test scene and the rendering result. The saving of the object with #declare has no effect, I just wanted to show both transformed and untransformed version.
I don’t think this issue is related to other artifacts occuring with sphere_sweep, as it is obviously an issue of the internal bounding box.
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281 | Geometric Primitives | Feature Request | 3.70 RC7 | Defer | Low | Bug in rendering of Bézier patches | Tracked on GitHub | |
Future release |
Task Description
In version 3.7.0.RC7.msvc10.win64, there is a bug in rendering Bézier patches in which four points (along one edge) are all the same point.
The rendering can be seen here: http://i.imgur.com/eq2UIXR.png [Edit: See attachment for the rendering]
As you can see, there is a visible unwanted artifact in the corner of each patch. The two patches shown are essentially the same, except with the 4×4 matrix of vertices transposed (just to demonstrate that simply transposing it didn’t fix it).
Expected rendering is a smooth surface without the artifact.
Below is the code used to render the above example.
#version 3.7;
global_settings { assumed_gamma 1.0 }
camera {
location <45, 31, -10>
look_at <40, 21, 200>
right x*image_width/image_height
}
light_source {
<660, 300, -525>
color rgb 1
}
Example 1: First point in each row is the same point bicubic_patch { type 1 flatness 0.001 u_steps 4 v_steps 4 <32.2168, -23.78125, 0>, <34.4968, -23.78125, 0>, <35.2168, -23.78125, -0.72>, <35.2168, -23.78125, -3>, <32.2168, -23.78125, 0>, <34.4968, -22.10256, 0>, <35.2168, -21.57244, -0.72>, <35.2168, -21.57244, -3>, <32.2168, -23.78125, 0>, <33.9709, -21.55577, 0>, <34.52483, -20.85299, -0.72>, <34.52483, -20.85299, -3>, <32.2168, -23.78125, 0>, <32.30556, -21.50298, 0>, <32.33359, -20.78352, -0.72>, <32.33359, -20.78352, -3> rotate 180*x
scale 1.4 translate ←5, 0, 0> pigment { color <1, 0, 0> } }
Example 2: First row is all the same point bicubic_patch {
type 1 flatness 0.001
u_steps 4 v_steps 4
<32.2168, -23.78125, 0>, <32.2168, -23.78125, 0>, <32.2168, -23.78125, 0>, <32.2168, -23.78125, 0>,
<34.4968, -23.78125, 0>, <34.4968, -22.10256, 0>, <33.9709, -21.55577, 0>, <32.30556, -21.50298, 0>,
<35.2168, -23.78125, -0.72>, <35.2168, -21.57244, -0.72>, <34.52483, -20.85299, -0.72>, <32.33359, -20.78352, -0.72>,
<35.2168, -23.78125, -3>, <35.2168, -21.57244, -3>, <34.52483, -20.85299, -3>, <32.33359, -20.78352, -3>
rotate 180*x
scale 1.4
pigment { color <1, 1, 0> }
}
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288 | Geometric Primitives | Possible Bug | 3.70 RC7 | Very Low | Low | Tolerance problem with refraction in blobs in CSG inter... | Tracked on GitHub | |
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Task Description
If a blob is intersected by something else, the composite object has incorrect refractions if it is too small (in absolute units). Having the same object constructed without a blob, the errors happen at much smaller scales. The errors don’t affect solid objects, just refractions.
An example shows a half-sphere, constructed as CSG sphere + plane, and identical half-pshere, constructed as CSG blob + plane. When the scale of the entire construction is changed, the refractions disappear first for the blob, and at 100x times smaller scale, also for the sphere. The right side shows the solid version, showing that the surface intersection test is ok, it’s just the refraction that fails.
The problem is not present when looking from the curved side (the blob side). So the ray that hits the blob, gets refracted correctly, but the ray that hits the intersecting plane first, and should then refract in the blob from the inside, doesn’t work. If in attached sphere, you exchange -y with y in clipping planes, everything is ok.
The scale when this happens is not very small - blobs of radius 0.02 already fail (noticed because in 1=1metre scale, blob raindrops on a glass plate didn’t have intersections when looking from the back).
Examples are named by factor=9,0.9,0.09,0.009 and you can see first the blob (top) refraction gets smaller and disappears, then later the bottom (sphere) also gets the same problem.
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292 | Geometric Primitives | Unimp. Feature/TODO | 3.70 RC7 | Very Low | Low | Arbitrary containing object for isosurfaces | Tracked on GitHub | |
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Task Description
A low priority thought for the future: isosurface now only allows contained_by to be a sphere or a box. It would be more intuitive to allow the same objects that are allowed in clipped_by and bounded_by (although it probably needs to be finite). It would enable allow much faster rendering in many cases:
1) There are a lot of cases when the sphere or a box are very bad in bounding - if an object has a hole, a torus may be better, and in many cases, cylindrical bounding would help a lot. 2) Sometimes, having a too large contained_by object includes far-away parts of the iso-function, and expose large gradients that you want to avoid. If a bounding object is better, you can decrease the max_gradient and speed up the render. 3) The isosurface is usually much more expensive to calculate than any normal bounding object, so it’s an improvement even if the intesection test is not as fast as bounding box. 4) A typical case: if you use texture-like functions to make the surface realistically rough, you know almost exactly what the bounding object is - it can be the original unmodified object. 5) For isosurface terrains, a preprocessing macro could create a rough mesh-like bounding object to contain the “mountains”, thus making everything faster. 6) In case you want clipping, having the contained_by set to the same object probably avoits calculating too many intersections.
The main modification is probably that the intersections of bounding objects can be split into more than one interval - but it’s probably worth it, the isosurfaces are usually a speed bottleneck.
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296 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 RC7 | Defer | Medium | max gradient computation is not thread safe (isosurface... | Tracked on GitHub | |
3.71 release |
Task Description
It appears as a side effect of investigation of #294: the code in isosurf.cpp, inside bool IsoSurface::Function_Find_Root_R(ISO_ThreadData& itd, const ISO_Pair* EP1, const ISO_Pair* EP2, DBL dt, DBL t21, DBL len, DBL& maxg)
if(gradient < temp)
gradient = temp;
is not thread-safe (The code is used at render time, there is a data race between < and = operation, as gradient is stored in the global object and accessed in write mode by the cited code)
It is only important if the gradient is initially undervaluated (otherwise, all is fine, no write-access)
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324 | Geometric Primitives | Definite Bug | 3.70 release | Very Low | High | 3.7 mesh2 rendering artifact, regression from 3.6 | Tracked on GitHub | |
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Task Description
Povray 3.7 has rendering artifact in meshes with polygons that meet at shallow angles. Please see the attached file.
The part of concern is the mesh2, which produces the partly-transparent faces of a shallow pyramid. The file result-3_6.png shows the output of povray-3.6, and the file result-3_7.png shows the output of povray-3.7. In 3.7, you can see a thin light-colored margin all around the base of the pyramid, especially thick under the top cylinder. In 3.6, this artifact is absent. For comparison purposes, I have inserted a “#version 3.6;” directive at the top of the file so that the output images are as close to each other as possible. However, the artifact is still present in 3.7 without this directive.
The attached scene file is only a small part of a much larger scene, where this artifact shows up in numerous very obvious places, where it doesn’t in 3.6. I have hunted in the documentation and online for ways to solve this problem, but haven’t found anything. Because of this, I am forced to stay with 3.6 for production use, which is quite unfortunate since I’d like to take advantage of the new features of 3.7.
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29 | Image format | Unimp. Feature/TODO | 3.70 beta 32 | Very Low | Medium | Re-implement image output to STDOUT | Closed | |
3.70 beta 39 |
Task Description
Versions of POV-Ray prior to 3.7 had the ability to write the image output as a stream to STDOUT. This was particularly useful in unix as it allowed POV-Ray output to be directly piped to other processes.
The introduction of SMP and the associated non-linear generation of pixels complicates stream output to the extent that it is not currently available in v3.7.
At a minimum 3.7 must at least be able to write the completed image to STDOUT after a render - this is not an optimal solution but is better than nothing. Ideally however once entire lines are complete (most likely this will occur in batches due to the block nature of the render subdivision) these lines will be written immediately to STDOUT (after possibly being processed through the appropriate image format routines).
NB currently the image format routines are not invoked until the entire render is completed, so to do this would be a significant modification. However if we limit real-time stream output to “simple” non-compressed formats (e.g. PPM), it would not be overly difficult, and from the point of view of Unix-like operating systems (where the piping feature is most useful), if the data is in PPM format it can easily be transformed into anything else.
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55 | Image format | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 32 | Very Low | Medium | Output_Alpha=on doesn't work as documented | Closed | |
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Task Description
I have installed POV-Ray 3.7 beta 34 on Windows 7 The setting ‘Output_Alpha=on’ doesn’t work as documented. With this setting the Background appear black and the scene is transparent.
Check with this Code:
camera {
location <3, 3, -3>
direction <0, 0, 2.9>
look_at <0, 0, 0>
right 1.0*x
}
light_source { < 3, 3, -3> color red 1 green 1 blue 1 }
sphere
{
<0,0,0> 0.8
pigment {color rgb<1,1,0>}
finish
{
ambient 0.2
diffuse 0.8
}
}
and with this ini file:
Input_File_Name=C:\Users\dfv_rei1\AppData\Local\Temp\Cuadrigula\PreviewObject.pov
Output_File_Name=C:\Users\dfv_rei1\AppData\Local\Temp\Cuadrigula\PreviewObject.tga
Output_File_Type=t
Output_Alpha=on
Bits_Per_Color=24
+W121 +H121
+a0.3
+q11
+a
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64 | Image format | Feature Request | Not applicable | Very Low | Low | Add "POV-Ray" metatags to images | Closed | |
3.70 beta 41 |
Task Description
Add metatags to output images identifying the file as having been created using POV-Ray.
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88 | Image format | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 36 | Very Low | Low | File output code does not properly handle negative colo ... | Closed | |
3.70 beta 37 |
Task Description
File output code for virtually all file formats performs gamma correction on unclipped color values, which leads to issues when color values happen to be negative for some reason and gamma does not happen to be an integer value such as 1.0 or 2.0. As a consequence, subsequent steps (clipping and converting to integer) apparently produce compiler-dependent results. Compiled with Microsift or Intel compilers, POV-Ray seems to write zero brightness in such cases, while compiled with g++ 4.4 (and possibly other compilers) it seems to write full brightness instead.
(See thread news://news.povray.org:119/4ba819f6@news.povray.org for examples.)
The proper solution should be to apply gamma correction after clipping.
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89 | Image format | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 36 | Very Low | Low | PPM output garbled for bit depths other than 8 bits | Closed | |
3.70 beta 37 |
Task Description
When choosing PPM output with a bit depth other than 8 bits per color channel (e.g. +FP16), POV-Ray messes up the colors (see thread news://news.povray.org:119/4babb48f$1@news.povray.org)
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103 | Image format | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 37 | Very Low | Low | JPEG output does not conform to baseline JFIF standard | Closed | |
3.70 beta 38 |
Task Description
POV-Ray 3.7-generated JPEG image output files do not conform to the JFIF standard. Most importantly, the files written do not use the standard YCbCr color model (they seem to use plain RGB instead), nor do they have a proper JFIF tag.
As a consequence, some software may be unable to read the generated JPEG files properly. In addition, it seems that POV-Ray mixes up the Red and Blue channels.
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104 | Image format | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 37 | Medium | Critical | Output file gamma broken for File_Gamma=1.0 | Closed | |
3.70 beta 37a |
Task Description
Setting File_Gamma=1.0 produces unexpectedly bright output files for most output file formats, as if File_Gamma was set to 2.2 instead.
The underlying problem is a bug that, when File_Gamma is set to exactly 1.0, causes the encoding gamma function to be undefined, which was not meant to happen in current versions, and instead was reserved for future versions to signal that a file-format-specific default encoding gamma should be used. The image file output handlers already support this, most of them choosing the sRGB transfer function, giving roughly the same output as setting File_Gamma=2.2.
As a preliminary workaround, users may want to set File_Gamma=1.02 (any value smaller than 0.99 or greater than 1.01 should do).
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112 | Image format | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 37a | Very Low | Low | OpenEXR alpha is only written when it shouldn't be | Closed | |
3.70 beta 38 |
Task Description
OpenEXR output currently writes an alpha channel when Output_Alpha=off (-UA), and does not write an alpha channel when Output_Alpha=on (+UA), i.e. doing it just the wrong way round.
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134 | Image format | Feature Request | 3.70 beta 37a | Very Low | Low | INI option to overlay render information on output imag ... | Closed | |
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Task Description
It would be nice to configure an INI option to add render information like render time, date, and input file to output images.
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144 | Image format | Compatibility Issue | 3.6 | Very Low | Medium | povray compatibility issue with png-1.4 | Closed | |
3.70 beta 39 |
Task Description
source/png_pov.cpp included in povray-3.6.1 contains calls to an internal function of libpng (png_write_finish_row) which was removed from the public interface quite a while ago, so linking fails.
Also, in the 1.4 releases of libpng, the info_struct “trans” member was renamed to trans_alpha. This causes a compilation error in the same file.
A suggestion for the solution: a) remove the png_write_finish_row prototype and function call b) add something like: #if PNG_LIBPNG_VER < 10400 #define trans_alpha trans #endif and change cmap[index].Transmit = 255 - r_info_ptr→trans[index]; to cmap[index].Transmit = 255 - r_info_ptr→trans_alpha[index]; (two occurrences).
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161 | Image format | Definite Bug | 3.70 beta 38 | Very Low | Medium | error when writing jpg format (linux build) | Closed | |
3.70 release |
Task Description
There is a confirmed bug when writing jpg file format with the current linux build (beta39). when specifying +fj output format the following error occurs:
JPEG parameter struct mismatch: library thinks size is 372, caller expects 376 JPEG parameter struct mismatch: library thinks size is 372, caller expects 376 Render failed
this has been confirmed on ubuntu 10.4 and openSuSe 11.2 (assuming 32 bit version) as openSuSe 11.2 64-bit reports no problem
there has been a proposed fix to ~smp/source/base/image/jpeg.cpp that appears to work, however it requires some additional work to make it a platform (linux) and compiler (gcc) specific fix.
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