[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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