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Ron Parker <ron### [at] povray org> wrote:
> On 23 Feb 2001 14:36:47 -0500, Geoff Wedig wrote:
>>funky things happen. This has *long* been a standard. If I were doing
>>dividing, where a small roundoff could have occured, then there might've
>>been some question, but in this case, we're dealing with integers added to
>>integers, albeit stored as floats. I can't see why they'd conflict in this
>>fashion. Or is POV doing something extremely funky with the clock? I
>>suppose it's possible that rather than use the settings I gave it for
>>initial and final clock, it still does 0-1, but then multiplies it by the
>>difference and adds the initial_clock, to get the clock setting given to the
>>scene file, but that seems like a lot of work when the true values are right
>>there.
> That's what I thought it must be doing, too, at first, but I see now that
> it computes the clock delta and adds it for each frame. The clock delta is
> given by (final_clock-initial_clock)/(final_frame-initial_frame), which
> should be exactly 1 unless you're using an old Pentium, but perhaps there's
> something funky about division that I don't understand.
May be. I've not spent any time on it, figuring that it looked like a doc
problem, and even if it wasn't, the fix I used worked quite well, so why
worry too much about it?
Geoff
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On 26 Feb 2001 12:13:34 -0500, Geoff Wedig wrote:
>Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
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>> Is Cyclic_Animation turned on or off?
>
>Dunno why that'd make a difference, but no, it wasn't.
It makes a difference in the computation of clock_delta. And you didn't
answer the question. :)
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Ron Parker http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
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Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
> On 26 Feb 2001 12:13:34 -0500, Geoff Wedig wrote:
>>Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
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>>> Is Cyclic_Animation turned on or off?
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>>Dunno why that'd make a difference, but no, it wasn't.
> It makes a difference in the computation of clock_delta. And you didn't
> answer the question. :)
Sorry, no, it wasn't turned on. Better? ;)
Geoff
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