POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: What determines CRITICAL_LENGTH and BOUND_HUGE?: Re: What determines CRITICAL_LENGTH and BOUND

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : What determines CRITICAL_LENGTH and BOUND_HUGE? : Re: What determines CRITICAL_LENGTH and BOUND_HUGE?		Server Time 17 May 2024 06:38:51 EDT (-0400)

From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 29 Dec 2005 11:40:06
Message: <dp1395$luo$1@chho.imagico.de>

Eric Buddington wrote:
> 
> Are the current values for CRITICAL_LENGTH and BOUND_HUGE at some calculated
> maximum, or did they just get pegged at "big enough for any sane use"?

Those constants are carefully chosen to obtain best results in most 
cases.  You should only change them if you know exactly what you are 
doing(tm).

Christoph

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