[Bf-committers] Re: Re: Re: [Bf-blender-cvs] CVS commit: blender/source/blender/python/api2_2x Mathutils.c

[GSR]

Hi,
arne.schmitz at mmweg.rwth-aachen.de (2005-10-10 at 2132.52 +0200):
> Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 21:14 schrieb GSR:
> > Should not the result already be between that, and if not, then
> > something is really wrong? In other words, not clamp but return error.
> 
> No, after a dot product, the value will sometimes slightly fall out of the 
> [-1, 1] range, due to rounding errors. For performance reasons, you wouldn't 
> want to clamp the values ALL the time, but only e.g. if you compute the acos 
> of a value. The acos is of course *only* defined over [-1, 1].

Which is what I said below... and then pointed the zero test is left
free to suffer of similar problems.

GSR