POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : about #debug : Re: about #debug Server Time
16 Apr 2026 07:57:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: about #debug  
From: jr
Date: 7 Apr 2026 04:35:00
Message: <web.69d4c139f5eb3fcd48bf72fa6cde94f1@news.povray.org>
hi,

"GioSeregni" <gms### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> sorry ...
> maybe we meant two different things
> There could be two problems
>
> 1) in a triangle a vertex can become the same as another because
> a value as 100,123407 becames 100,1234 which is already at another vertex
> So the triangle is corrupts
>
> 2) two different triangles, because 100,123407 <> 100,1234 can become the same
> triangle cutting off excess decimals

so what is so "special" about writing only to the 4th decimal digit ?  can you
not simply write the six digits after ?  if nothing else it would much reduce
the likelihood of of two vertices or triangles becoming the same through
truncation.


regards, jr.


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