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29 Jul 2024 12:18:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: High turbulence  
From: Warp
Date: 6 May 2002 10:56:17
Message: <3cd69991@news.povray.org>
Felix Wiemann <Fel### [at] gmxnet> wrote:
> When I use values for turbulence above 2^31 (2 billions), white areas 
> appear.

  And that surprises you?
  When we go to the extremes, floating point accuracy errors usually give
funny results.

> Maybe using some floating point type instead of int would solve the 
> problem and be also more accurate.

  Why do you think that any part of turbulence calculations use ints? AFAIK
it's all floating point.

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


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