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From: Warp
Date: 7 Apr 2010 07:27:07
Message: <4bbc6c0b@news.povray.org>

gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> The algorithm in povray arbitrarily shuts down with an iterations above 32767.

> It could let you go to higher resolution with higher counts; it seems an
> abritary choice.

  That doesn't affect the artifacts you get when you zoom beyond the
accuracy of double-precision floating point numbers.

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                                                          - Warp

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