POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.newusers: Objects at large distances disappear (No matter how large they are): Re: Objects at large distances disappear (No matter how large they are)

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Objects at large distances disappear (No matter how large they are) : Re: Objects at large distances disappear (No matter how large they are)		Server Time 30 Jul 2024 22:27:19 EDT (-0400)

From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 30 Jun 2003 15:59:10
Message: <3f00968e$1@news.povray.org>

In article <3f008f97@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   Actually I think that the imposed maximum value for distances is much
> smaller than would be possible with 64-bit floating point numbers (which
> POV-Ray uses) at a good precision, but I suppose that the principle
> has been "better safe than sorry", which might be a good idea.
>   I think that this maximum distance is easily modifiable in one of
> the source code files (and then you could recompile a custom version
> with a much higher limit).

IMHO this dis cussion or detail does not belong here at all. This is
povray.newusers and your reply only adds to the confusion of a new user
rather than helping at all.

    Thorsten

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