POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Area lights vs spotlight : Re: Area lights vs spotlight Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:30:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Area lights vs spotlight  
From: Giuseppe Bilotta
Date: 21 May 2005 12:17:33
Message: <1qt6gwr857z2w$.vo1ogcety858.dlg@40tude.net>
On Sat, 21 May 2005 14:32:30 +0100, Daniel Hulme wrote:

>> Maybe another idea would be a different form of adaptive sampling:
>> start with no pre-fixed number of lights in the area light, but
>> proceed by halving until the shadow delta is "good enough" (where the
>> user chooses the "good enough" instead of the number of lights)?
> 
> I think this would be feasible but no better than the current method.
> You would also have to think hard about how this affects specular
> highlights.

So it always comes down to getting a better CPU, uh? :)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
nor safety." Benjamin Franklin


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