Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> 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.
>

In practice, however, you are very apt to run into "ugliness" due to povray's
short-cheating on iterations capability before you run into ugliness due to
"mag".

Three years ago, you refused to test code that showed this problem.

http://news.povray.org/povray.advanced-users/thread/%3Cweb.4718d5b659db5e5d40d56c170@news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=337821&to
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"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> >   That doesn't affect the artifacts you get when you zoom beyond the
> > accuracy of double-precision floating point numbers.
> >
>
> In practice, however, you are very apt to run into "ugliness" due to povray's
> short-cheating on iterations capability before you run into ugliness due to
> "mag".
>
> Three years ago, you refused to test code that showed this problem.
>

Link was dead on web version:

http://tinyurl.com/y6yj9kv

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