William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> In looking at your results I'm not at all sure why the max extent values
> for x and z are all zero? The HF max extent should be 1 or larger for x
> and z (always I think if not scaled) ?

This got me curious as well.

So I just threw some quick lines of code together.

The hf looks fine to me.   Typo in Ken's code?

#declare delta_hf = 1/pow (2, 16);
#debug concat ("1/pow (2, 16) = ", str (delta_hf, 0, 8), "\n")

#declare HF = height_field {
     function 800, 800 { 1 }
     }

#declare Min = min_extent (HF);
#declare Max = max_extent (HF);


-0.0 shows up as : -0.000000
+0.0 shows up as : 0.000000

Var negZero shows up as : -0.000000
Var posZero shows up as : 0.000000
Var hmmZero shows up as : -0.000000

select () interprets -0 as zero
sgn () interprets -0 as zero
Ternary interprets -0 as zero
#if interprets -0 as zero
1/pow (2, 16) = 0.00001526
Heightfield min_extent = = 0.00000000, 0.99998474, 0.00000000
Heightfield max_extent = = 1.00000000, 0.99998480, 1.00000000


Changing the function result to 0 yields:

Heightfield min_extent = = 0.00000000, -0.00000002, 0.00000000
Heightfield max_extent = = 1.00000000, 0.00000002, 1.00000000

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