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  Re: Finally reaching the floating point error regime: an homage toPOV-Team  
From: Warp
Date: 22 May 2011 04:32:20
Message: <4dd8ca14@news.povray.org>
On 05/22/2011 12:14 AM, Stephen wrote:
> How does Fractint's deep zooming work, then?

   When hardware registers don't have enough precision of the required 
zoom level, it switches to calculating the values via software with much 
larger accuracies. (Obviously this is significantly slower.)


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