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5 Aug 2024 18:23:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: to litle precision ?  
From: Warp
Date: 8 Aug 2002 07:39:15
Message: <3d525862@news.povray.org>
ABX <abx### [at] babilonorg> wrote:
> POV already use double for calculations.
> Float is used for color values only iirc.

  POV-Ray uses floats for meshes (which gives me cold shivers... but on the
other hand it saves a huge amount of memory). I haven't checked, but it is
very possible that it also uses floats for heightfields.

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


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