POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : truncated spheres : Re: truncated spheres Server Time
4 Oct 2024 19:21:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: truncated spheres  
From: Chambers
Date: 21 Mar 2007 17:22:22
Message: <4601b01e@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>>>> You're dealing with two numbers, one of them being approximately 20 
>>>> million times the other.  It's a known aspect of the hardware we use 
>>>> that you should keep your ratios smaller than this to avoid precision 
>>>> errors.
>>>   Where exactly are you getting that number?
> 
>> Location of 1M, radius of 0.05.
> 
>   You didn't really answer my question.
> 

OK Warp, then 1M / 0.05 = 20M.  So the one number is 20M times the other.

...Chambers


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