"Felix Wiemann" <Fel### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
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> The table below says that with +AM1 and +R2 four samples are taken, with
+R4
> 16 samples are taken etc.
> But as I could see in the messages when using +A0.0 +AM1 and +R2/4/6/8,
> always one more sample is taken (5, 17, 37, 65).
> Perhaps that is because a ray in the middle of the pixel is shooten, but
why
> shouldn't it be written in the documentation (or at least made clear that
> these are *additional* samples)?
>
> Felix Wiemann

My guess would be, that the 5 are the original ray, plus the four
super-samples.  Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, though :)

...Chambers

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