Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
: The only things I can think of that are floats are color components, which 
: don't need 64 bits of resolution anyway.

  If I read the source code correctly, there's another thing which is stored
with 32-bit floats (using the SNGL data type): Triangle mesh vertices and
normals.
  I really don't like this (since meshes are usually HUGE with lots of
tiny details), but I suppose it's done so for memory saving reasons.

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