POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : 16 bit Povray : Re: 16 bit Povray Server Time
5 Jul 2024 14:41:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 16 bit Povray  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 25 Jul 2003 19:55:49
Message: <cjameshuff-39FE10.18555725072003@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3f20e59f@news.povray.org>, Th Boudet <th.### [at] freefr> 
wrote:

> Christopher James Huff wrote:
> > Why would you want a version that used 16 bit floats?
>      Embedded Povray ?

And why would you want that?

Anyway, it just won't work. You could write a simple custom raytracer if 
you pay very careful attention to precision, but POV has enough 
precision problems already.

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