In article <3e1c8bd2@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   On the other hand, AFAIK there are some internal limits in POV-Ray.
> For example I think that if an object is farther away from the starting
> point of a ray than a certain distance, it's not taken into consideration

Hence I mentioned the practical limits.  Nevertheless, i.e. during
transformations there is no problem with any number that fits the IEEE
limits.

> (a limitation which some people have found and not liked too much, even
> though this distance is rather large).

Because it prevents them from modeling a start system using one km units ;-)

    Thorsten

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