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23 Apr 2024 19:46:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Coplanarity of 4 points in space  
From: scott
Date: 9 Nov 2016 03:56:33
Message: <5822e4c1$1@news.povray.org>
> I recently bumped into a problem when working on polygons. Most of my pentagons
> weren't generated. In the end changing the points' coordinates from 8
> significant digits to 15 significant digits solved the problem. Shouldn't 8
> digits be sufficient? That's enough to describe a 100 mm object with a 1 micron
> accuracy. Shouldn't POVray take some margin of error into account?

Draw them as 3 triangles instead?


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