Makes sense about the vertices.  Not sure about the background, since when I'm doing these renders they're usually in an empty scene.  No background, no images or anything else.  I was making some images to turn into library icons.

Anyhow, I'm happy that it does the trick for whatever reason but I was - and still am - curious about it.

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