Re: clipping plane default value

[Denis-Jose Francois <denisjos(at)gmail.com>]

Cheers Kim

Thought it might be something like that... just wondering... perhaps I 
need more work to do today? hmm...

Kim Aldis wrote:
> 2^15 makes it the maximum that a 16 bit integer variable can hold. (15
> because the 16th bit is a sign bit, if it were 2^16 it would be negative).
>
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> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Denis-Jose Francois
> > Sent: 17 July 2007 16:14
> > To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: clipping plane default value
> >
> > Hi folks
> >
> > this is purely out of geek interest...
> >
> > why is the default value for the clipping plane in XSI equal to 2^15 (2
> > to power 15) ?? why not 2^16? or 2^8? or some round number like
> > 10,000??
> > Is there a maximum number that it can/should be set to?
> >
> > anyone know?
> >
> > DJF
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