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  Re: is this bug or floating point error (noise on torus)  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 9 Mar 2001 15:41:08
Message: <slrn9aifv7.b89.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 12:02:12 -0800, Josh English wrote:
>I tried it, and at S=100, it was gone. I started to get grainy at S=15. So I was 150
>units away looking at something with an vertical angle of  0.015278874  it's tangent
>is 0.000266666. This is pretty small, but I can't imagine the computers cutoff being
>so high.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the definition of EPSILON. 

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
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