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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 22:44:45 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Floating Point Problems... HELP
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Betcha your code is dividing by zero.

1. Get DJGPP 2.02, and programs you build with it won't crash from such
   math errors.
2. Make sure your math is correct -- you probably shouldn't be dividing
   by zero there. Divisions by 0 in 3D code often result when applying
   perspective transformations to something behind the camera or
   exactly in a plane with the camera perpendicular to the direction
   the camera is facing. To avoid that, z clip things so they don't
   come closer to the camera than a small distance, e.g. by chopping
   off polygons and parts of polygons that come closer to the camera
   than z=0.01, assuming 0.01 is a small small distance in your system
   and z is the direction parallel to the camera's viewing center
   direction. Your z buffering can do the z clipping.


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