POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Limits to size and distance?: Re: Limits to size and distance?

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From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 7 Mar 2007 11:35:00
Message: <web.45eee9468c55fdc4731f01d10@news.povray.org>

"FexFX" <fex### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> Are there built in limits to size and distance in povray?
> There seems to be...

Things can get dicey when you reach solar system proportions. See this
thread:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.4360929f30852916731f01d10%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=3

for a lengthy discussion (and partial solution) to this problem when some of
us tried to produce a Ringworld (a big dumb object from Larry Niven's SF
novel of the same name).

Bill

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