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  Re: Large numbers?  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 2 Apr 2001 05:47:13
Message: <3ac84aa1@news.povray.org>
Does this mean I won't be able to do a scene that starts on earth, flies up
into space and look at earth again with the sun included?

Nekar

"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 11:19:04 -0700, Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> >That sounds almost exactly like my problem. So this is, in fact, a
> >long-standing bug in POV-Ray?
>
> Not a bug.  A design flaw, perhaps, but not a bug.  POV-Ray is not
> designed to do full-scale simulations of microscopic or astronomical
> distances, and especially not of both in the same scene.
>
> --
> Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
> My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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