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31 Jul 2024 22:13:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Render error when scaling entire scene  
From: Warp
Date: 25 Aug 2006 04:41:57
Message: <44eeb7d5@news.povray.org>
Eric Buddington <ebu### [at] wesleyanedu> wrote:
> I can't quite figure how
> (in the FAQ's example) a distance of 10^5 is enough to cause these
> artefacts

  It's not the distance alone. It's in conjunction with the really small
camera angle. Even though alone both numbers are very accurate in 64-bit
floating point representation, when they are combined and the results
used for the ray-sphere intersection calculations, the inaccuracies
start showing themselves.

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                                                          - Warp


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