POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Numerical Precision : Re: Numerical Precision Server Time
4 Oct 2024 19:19:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Numerical Precision  
From: Orchid XP v3
Date: 12 Sep 2007 15:47:44
Message: <46e84260$1@news.povray.org>
andrel wrote:

>>>   Any suggestions? ;)

>> Matlab?

> no, all floating point arithmetic (unless with special libraries).

OK. I really know nothing about it other than

1. I hate it.

2. It's meant to be fast.

> BTW for a real scene you would never need more than a precision of 
> 1:1e56 (size of the universe divided by the Planck length ;) )

Not in the final scene, no. But the intermediate calculations? Maybe! ;-)

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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/


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