Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote:
> gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoo com> 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.
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