POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: 3DNow or Later?: Re: 3DNow or Later?

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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 26 Jan 2001 08:06:18
Message: <3A717642.3C96091C@gmx.de>

Micha Riser wrote:
> 
> As I understood it, 3DNow supports single precision floating point only.
> But POV (and ray-tracing in general) needs double precision to get good
> pictures (there is a thread in p.unofficial.patches about why this is
> so). Therefore 3DNow is useless for POV.
> 
> - Micha

Specifically the threads:

3D!Now & ISSE
double/single precision

BTW, wouldn't that be a good addition to the VFAQ?

Christoph

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