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1 Jul 2024 02:43:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photon Problems?  
From: earthdog
Date: 10 Jul 2002 10:26:01
Message: <3D2C43FF.7020602@NOSPAMevil3d.net>
ingo wrote:
> in news:3D2### [at] NOSPAMevil3dnet earthdog wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have some strange artifacts here.  Are photons the problem?
> 
>  
> Looks to like the main problem is that your light_source is very close to 
> the object. If you change its position to <100,100,-100> it looks good.
> Another option would be decreasing spacing (you only need one of the two, 
> spacing or count). Yet another option is changing the target on the sphere 
> to target 0.1. Also you can toy with gather, try gather 200,1000. All 
> solutions make that you gather more photons.
> 
> Ingo

Thank you.  I'll try it now.  I was fairly lost here.

-- Jeff


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