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Article: 440 of comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
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From: jmacleod@unixg.ubc.ca (James Douglas MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
Subject: Re: Pentium Bug WAS Re: LightWave 4.0 Delays
Date: 7 Dec 1994 09:35:44 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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References: <1fc65d78.1d8eecab@amuc.mtroyal.ab.ca> <3bhb6f$d6s@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca> <shfD0938M.4vu@netcom.com> <3bt0b7$5ae@news.cs.tulane.edu>
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In article <3bt0b7$5ae@news.cs.tulane.edu>,
J.J. Hoesing <hoesing@cs.tulane.edu> wrote:
>the right circumstances, the program will crash. These would all be
>very bad :-) and I would consider them to be fatal.
I am not too sure how the things you described work, but I am curiious
how an error in precison can cause a program to crash? Particularily one
that deals with graphics?
Do things happen when you are rendering that make one finished rendered
pixel, alter the result of another rendered pixel? I mean is each pixel
rendered from the parameters of the environment, or is it ever dependant
on previous calculations?
Does that make any sense?