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  Re: Maximum possible extents for POV-Ray scene coordinates?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 8 Jan 2003 15:24:50
Message: <3e1c8912@news.povray.org>
In article <3e1c7d9e$1@news.povray.org> , "George Pantazopoulos" 
<the### [at] attbicom*KILLSPAM*> wrote:

>     What are the minimum and maximum possible values that any coordinate in
> scene space could ever have?

Anything POV-Ray will read as float will be accepted, which means the limits
of an IEEE 754 64 bit floating-point number also apply to POV-Ray on all
supported platform.  But assume practical limits to be at 1.000.000 and 1 /
1.000.000 .

    Thorsten

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