POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Numerical Precision : Re: Numerical Precision Server Time
4 Oct 2024 23:13:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Numerical Precision  
From: Warp
Date: 10 Sep 2007 19:35:44
Message: <46e5d4cf@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Possible but not realy practical in any case when you need to do 1000's+ of FP 
> operations, some of those been possibly quite complexe. And this was my point: 
> maintain acceptable rendering speed while geting higher FP precision.
> Arbitrary precision can be 100 to 1000 times slower, and possibly even worse.

  He didn't ask to render using the high-precision FP. He asked for
#defined variables with high precision.

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                                                          - Warp


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