POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : 16 bit Povray : Re: 16 bit Povray Server Time
5 Jul 2024 14:58:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 16 bit Povray  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 4 May 2003 17:38:24
Message: <3eb58850@news.povray.org>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3eb165da$1@news.povray.org...
> In article <3eb15e33@news.povray.org> , "Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote:
>
> > Would it be possible/easy to compile a version of Povray which uses 16
> > bit floats?
>
> There is no 16 bit float format supported by any existing hardware,

Sure, they're called GPU's :)  At CGShaders.org, there's even a raytraced
pixel shader, though you have to compile it separately for each scene.

...Chambers


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