These files are the extreme supersampling demo. Contributed by Adam Crume, Feb. 2011. The orthographic and perspective camera versions that illustrate the problem: ortho-camera.pov persp-camera.pov and the mesh_camera versions showing how forcing extreme supersampling can overcome the problem. ess-ortho-camera.pov ess-persp-camera.pov The reference examples produce images showing how default anti-aliasing totally elimainates the grid of tiny spheres that should appear to the right of the test object, they should be rendered as: povray +Iortho-camera.pov +Oortho-camera.png +FN +W800 +H600 +A povray +Ipersp-camera.pov +Opersp-camera.png +FN +W800 +H600 +A whereas their mesh_camera versions are able to produce anti-aliasied images that are a more accurate representation of the scene, they should be rendered as: povray +Iess-ortho-camera.pov +Oess-ortho-camera.png +FN +W800 +H600 povray +Iess-persp-camera.pov +Oess-persp-camera.png +FN +W800 +H600 For additional information see: http://www.adamcrume.com/blog/archive/2011/01/19/forcing-extreme-supersampling-with-pov-ray