High float precision NVIDIA vs. INTEL

[Stefan]

Shadertoy demo Seascape - fix white pixels (Ported to GeeXLab) is supposed to fix graphical corruption that appears after some hours in the original demo
Apparently caused by bad floating point calculations.

If you max it out you can still spoof the FPU, whereat NVIDIA's precision is very imprecise

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// High float precision in fragment shader should be: -/+ 2 to the power of 127
// max. NVIDIA
// float SEA_TIME = iGlobalTime + pow(2.0, 118.0); // OK with bad visuals
// float SEA_TIME = iGlobalTime + pow(2.0, 119.0); // blank screen

// max. INTEL
// float SEA_TIME = iGlobalTime + pow(2.0, 127.0); // OK with bad visuals
// float SEA_TIME = iGlobalTime + pow(2.0, 128.0); // "end of the world"