[Radiance-general] set overflow in addobject

Greg Ward [email protected]
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:17:31 -0700


Dear Krzysztof,

The solution is very simple -- follow the instructions in the oconv man 
page and increase the -r option by powers of two until the problem 
disappears.  In your case, I'd recommend going straight to some large 
value, such as -r 262144.

-Greg


> From: "Krzysztof Wandachowicz" <[email protected]>
>
> Dear Radiance users,
>
> I have made calculation of luminance and illuminance distribution of 
> specular reflectors using Radiance. My parabolic reflector is made 
> with 15750 very small polygons. All polygons are mirror material. The 
> problem is that when I make oconv process I get the following error:
>
> oconv: internal - set overflow in addobject 
> (parabola-0-004-R_63E0.6350.1)
>
> 6350 is the number of polygon.
>
> The same error I have on different computers and no matter if it is 
> Radiance 3.1 under LINUX or Desktop Radiance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Krzysztof Wandachowicz