EagleSun wrote:

> And after reading the article at
> "http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/languageQandT.html#largescaleproblems", I
> agree that it's too restrictive... and I was hoping that POV Team could let
> the users decide on the restrictions.  Granted faraway objects will not be
> accurate.... but... viewing the sun at such a faraway distance, I don't
> think anyone will notice.

Unfortunantly, the restriction isn't imposed by POV-Ray in and of 
itself. Its a precision problem inherent to how most computers handle 
floating point (decimal) numbers. While the numbers show an astronomical 
range, the *precision* of the numbers has only a relatively very narrow 
range, somewhere in the neighborhood of a few billion truely 
representable numbers before you have to start dropping digits. When the 
digits are dropped, the calculations are no longer accurate enough and 
artifacts do occur.

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