[vtkusers] double/float

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Feb 24 12:13:35 EST 2004


Marcelo Ruetalo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I read in a previous email that future versions of VTK will be 
> supporting data of type double. Does that mean "instead of" or "as well 
> as" float? I hope it's the latter...

All this means is that VTK's internal implementation will use double for 
calculations instead of float to avoid precision loss.  This affects the 
user community in a few places in the interface that now return double* 
results instead of float*.

-Brad




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