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**Confirming the difference in the benchmark photon time and result is due my version of this pull request.** Attached is an image. The left column of the top two rows...

While mentioned briefly in a commit message to my solver branch, I want to document in this comment thread that having larger values, SMALL_TOLERANCE (1e-3) being worse than MIN_ISECT_DIST (1e-4),...

Alright. Been slowed. Turns out my 17 year old APC UPS had become undependable and was periodically taking out my machine. Replaced it and now back to documenting a couple...

Issues related to the shipped grenadine.pov scene and the previous comment and change to cone.cpp. See the attached image. The scene pushes the cylinder representing the liquid into the glass...

@ingoogni - Interesting. Thanks for posting. I've not got a version of 3.1 running at the moment, but do have versions of 3.5 and 3.6 (3.6.1). A detail I left...

The original issue was reported on windows vista. I run on Ubuntu 16.04 so was unable to test the current POV-Ray 3.7.1 (commit 3cd6b6c) on windows. I did spend some...

Today I was able to get POV-Ray to hang running an instrumented version of the code. Ubuntu 16.04. I was testing again an animation, but turns out this hang happens...

Managed to get another hang with a non-debug compile and traces before and after an ignored cntl-c. I now think we have the mutex deadlock situation due our unix signal...

I've broken out the mutex deadlock issue as github issue #142. Please now limit work and comments here to that of high frame rate animations being hard to pause. Thanks.

Original issue was on windows and I don't run windows. Someone else needs to test there. I'm able to pause OK on Ubuntu for frame rates of up to 20/sec(1)...