POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Sampling in pov3.5 : Re: Sampling in pov3.5 Server Time
6 Oct 2024 12:07:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sampling in pov3.5  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 4 Jan 2003 12:17:20
Message: <3E171720.2AC78C5@gmx.de>
Nathan Kopp wrote:
> 
> Also, this brings up a good point that if we can find a fast way to generate
> a new set of samples for each render, we could theoretically come up with
> better distributions for all sample counts.  The key here is to be able to
> generate a good sample list quickly.

I doubt that such a 'fast and good' algorithm is possible.  Apart from
that you have the problem that it is not known in advance which samples
from the table are used (see the 'while(rayOk...' loop in radiosit.cpp).  

Christoph

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