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  Re: Increasing calculation depth with the mandel pattern?  
From: gregjohn
Date: 7 Apr 2010 07:40:01
Message: <web.4bbc6e18cfdfbfd634d207310@news.povray.org>
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.

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