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30 Jul 2024 08:29:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Disappearing Large Sphere Bug in beta 8  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Dec 2001 08:39:25
Message: <3c0a2f0d@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
: The current limit is 10^7 by default.  I think it is reasonable if you
: consider that to find the distance you end up with more than 10^14 and have
: to take the sqare root.  I think more could be slightly out of the necessary
: precision for root finders under some conditions.

  Perhaps the documentation should mention these kind of limitations so that
people could be aware of them.

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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