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Does escala change very often? Since you change the position of the map, you also have to recalculate the triangle selector and stuff when you do this.
I think this might be a problem...but dont take my word Im still new.
It also happens when camera is initialized at Z axis (plane x=0). So i think its not really about the camera movement, but a small bug in calculations, as Spintz suggested.