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  Re: More methods? was Re: anti-aliasing  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 14 Feb 2002 01:05:30
Message: <3c6b53aa@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3c6ade73@news.povray.org...
> Ben Chambers <bdc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> :>   Does it work for reflections/refractions as well?-)
>
> : Does the current method?  I was under the impression that supersampling
was
> : done only on the rays shot from the view plane, and not on reflection /
> : refracted rays.
>
>   Of course it works for reflections/refractions. If the pixel color
> difference threshold is reached, then another ray is shot from the camera.
> This ray will (probably) also reflect/refract from the same object, thus
> sampling whatever is reflected/refracted.

But you're still talking about rays from the camera.  I thought you meant
that reflected / refracted rays themselves were supersampled :)

...Chambers


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