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	ID	Category	Task Type	Reported In	Priority	Severity	Summary	Status	Progress	Due In Version
	202	Geometric Primitives	Definite Bug	3.70 RC3	Very Low	Low	Numerical oddities in Julia_Fractal	Tracked on GitHub	0%		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.

Category

Geometric Primitives

Definite Bug

3.70 RC3

Very Low

Low

Numerical oddities in Julia_Fractal

Tracked on GitHub

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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