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  Re: Set small values to 0.  
From: Thorsten
Date: 30 Aug 2020 10:43:38
Message: <5f4bbb1a@news.povray.org>
The SPEC 2017 code is a beta of 3.7 where the source file comments had 
not been updated yet.

On 30.08.2020 06:58, DonF wrote:
> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> 
>> Awaking this morning though, had a question in my head whether the above
>> statement really true? I doubt you are really running v3.7 - or at least
>> any official version of v3.7 because your output has the line:
> 
> 
> The SPEC 2017 benchmark documentation indicates v3.7, but the SPEC code
> itself is still documented as being version 3.6, as indicated from the
> below comments from the quadrics.cpp. But it looks like a common issue
> between 3.6 and 3.7, unless the issue is resolved elsewhere in the newer
> version.
> 
> 
> /****************************************************************************
>   *               quadrics.cpp
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>   * $File: //depot/povray/spec-3.6/source/quadrics.cpp $
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>   * $Change: 5014 $
>   * $DateTime: 2010/06/13 03:51:51 $
>   * $Author: thorsten $
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> 
> 
> And once again, my simple fix, at least for the SPEC 2017 test case, was to
> simply, rerun the "set small values to 0" check after the "recalculation".
> 
> 
>   808   /* Get quadrics coefficients. */
>   809
>   810   A = Quadric->Square_Terms[X];
>   811   E = Quadric->Square_Terms[Y];
>   812   H = Quadric->Square_Terms[Z];
>   813   B = Quadric->Mixed_Terms[X] / 2.0;
>   814   C = Quadric->Mixed_Terms[Y] / 2.0;
>   815   F = Quadric->Mixed_Terms[Z] / 2.0;
>   816   D = Quadric->Terms[X] / 2.0;
>   817   G = Quadric->Terms[Y] / 2.0;
>   818   I = Quadric->Terms[Z] / 2.0;
>   819   J = Quadric->Constant;
>   820
>   821   /* Set small values to 0. */
>   822
>   823   if (fabs(A) < EPSILON) A = 0.0;
>   824   if (fabs(B) < EPSILON) B = 0.0;
>   825   if (fabs(C) < EPSILON) C = 0.0;
>   826   if (fabs(D) < EPSILON) D = 0.0;
>   827   if (fabs(E) < EPSILON) E = 0.0;
>   828   if (fabs(F) < EPSILON) F = 0.0;
>   829   if (fabs(G) < EPSILON) G = 0.0;
>   830   if (fabs(H) < EPSILON) H = 0.0;
>   831   if (fabs(I) < EPSILON) I = 0.0;
>   832   if (fabs(J) < EPSILON) J = 0.0;
> 
>   <skip some lines>
> 
>   893     /* Recalculate coefficients. */
>   894
>   895     D += A * T1[X];
>   896     G += E * T1[Y];
>   897     I += H * T1[Z];
>   898     J -= T1[X]*(A*T1[X] + 2.0*D) + T1[Y]*(E*T1[Y] + 2.0*G) + T1[Z]*(H*T1[Z]
> + 2.0*I);
> 
>           /* Simple fix to redo the "set small values to 0." after
>              the recalculation. */
> 
>           /* The SPEC 2017 case only needs this reset for J, but I
>              assume it wouldn't hurt to redo for D, G, and I also.
>              Also note that the J recalculation is different with the
>              newer version of POVRAY, but that didn't change the
>              "close to zero, but not actually equal to zero" issue.
> 
>           if (fabs(J) < EPSILON) J = 0.0;
> 
>   899   }
> 
> 
> 
> 
>


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