Paul Vanukoff <van### [at] primenetcom> wrote:
: I'm wondering, given an "average" scene (whatever that means), what would
: render faster:

: 2000*1500 with AA @ 0.1

:  or

: 3000*2250 with no AA ?

  It depends on how complex the scene is. If the antialiasing kicks in very
often, then it's slower of course.
  With 3000x2250 no AA pov has to shoot 6750000 rays from the camera.
  If we suppose that every 10th pixel has to be supersampled, at the
resolution 2000x1500 pov has to shoot about 5700000 rays (84% of the first
one). If every 5th pixel has to be supersampled, it has to shoot about
8400000 rays (1.2% of the first one).

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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