sorry, I meant 1 unit
"Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> In article <3d62becb@news.povray.org>,

>
> > what is a useful size to work with? what are the pro/cons in working
with
> > 1px=1 metre or 100px=1 metre?
> > what do you use and why?
>
> "px"?
> The units in POV have no relation to any specific real-world
> measurement. Or to the generated image for that matter (it looks like
> you might think they are related to pixels for some reason). A unit is
> just a unit, you can use inches, millimeters, kilometers, miles, AU's,
> light years...whatever makes the most sense. You do have to be careful
> with the range of dimensions in your scene, computers have limited
> available precision.
>
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