Re: shading box many times

[Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>]

Vit Zyka wrote:
> Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> Vit Zyka wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Metafun Wizards,
>>>>
>>>> I have noticed some strange behaviour with box shading. It works OK
>>>> until some number of shadings. Please see example:
>>>>   http://typokvitek.com/tmp/shade-many.pdf
>>>> Any idea for solving? Next not-minimal but small and illustrative
>>>> example can help.
>>>
>>>
>>> works ok here; since it concerns independent mp runs, i cannot
>>> imagine what goes wrong; mayeb a bad random numer; does your log say
>>> something?
>>
>>
>> My results are the same as Vit's example: The last 9 items are
>> not shaded but have 3 black sides and 1 white one
>> (with \write18 disabled, using a single \jobname-mpgraph.mp)
>>
>> I don't know what is going, but at least I can reproduce the problem.
>> I'm attaching an example wrong image.
>>
>> Taco
> 
> A minimal version is here. It shows the randomization is not the reason.
> Shade disappears at 989th shade.

Both examples work here (win xp).

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Peter