POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.utilities : Online files converter : Re: Online files converter Server Time
10 Oct 2025 20:12:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Online files converter  
From: yesbird
Date: 8 Oct 2025 20:56:14
Message: <68e7082e$1@news.povray.org>
On 09/10/2025 03:21, Kenneth wrote:
> In my own POV-ray-only stl-to-mesh converter-- not yet posted ;-) -- I came to
> the same conclusion: that 4 or 5 digits were enough, and that more were simply
> overkill. In my experience, some models' float values are written with much more
> precision than is necessary...

Many thanks for sharing the results of your investigation - there is a
space for analysis here. Necessary precision is really dependent on a
model's scale. Current release has 6 digits, let's try to test it. I
guess, the file size is not a serious limitation, so increasing to 8-10
is possible.
--
YB


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