POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Superellipsoid artefacts : Re: Superellipsoid artefacts Server Time
11 May 2024 02:09:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Superellipsoid artefacts  
From: Kyle
Date: 16 Nov 2007 11:24:57
Message: <b1hrj3htr37q7coch78n8sp8nf4ei5558u@4ax.com>
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:01:31 +0100, Le Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:

>Short version: the box used for the computation of the
>superellipsoid must be a bit bigger than the perfect {-1,1} box, due
>to numerical precision. 1% is enough.
>If not, some point computed during the evaluation of the ray
>intersecting with the superellipsoid will be found to be outside of
>the bounding 'perfect' box... and removed from the intersection list.

Makes sense.  Good catch!


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