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  Re: are radiosity files resolution-dependent?  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 29 Jan 2004 13:44:04
Message: <170oe1-pho.ln1@triton.imagico.de>
Peter MacMurchy wrote:
> To speed up my distributed rendering, I aim to take the suggestion of
> various users here to save radiosity data once and use "load_file"
> thereafter.  Can i safely save radiosity data computed at one resolution
> and apply it to a render of the same scene at a different resolution?

Yes, you can, but this does not mean that the radiosity file generated 
by a render at a certain resolution is identical to that at a different 
resolution.  Especially the number of samples taken during final trace 
even when load_file is used will be larger at larger resolutions of course.

Christoph

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