POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Numerical Precision : Re: Numerical Precision Server Time
4 Oct 2024 23:15:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Numerical Precision  
From: Alain
Date: 11 Sep 2007 07:47:13
Message: <46e68041$1@news.povray.org>
Warp nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/09/10 19:35:
> 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.
> 
There is no use to only define the variable using extreme precision if you can't 
use it at that precision.
If you #define a variable at 100 decimal places, you also want to use it at 100 
decimal places.

-- 
Alain
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