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31 Jul 2024 00:27:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Strange rendering of small blobs  
From: Yannick Patois
Date: 30 Jan 2008 15:06:39
Message: <47a0d8cf$1@news.povray.org>
Hi,



>> On a single scene, it may likely range from a slightly sub-millimeter 
>> scale (details of everyday objects) to some hundreds of millions of km 
>> (planets in solar system), that is around 10^-7 to 10^9 in povray units.

> You can't mix km with mm in a single scene, at least not without 
> modifying POV-Ray to use arbitrary-precision floating-point numbers 
> (probably quite a rewrite, and would really slow things down).

Thanks for this info. You mean that a scale range from 1 to 10^6 is too 
much? Seems pretty narrow to me. I'll see!

Thanks,

	Yannick


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