POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Sampling in pov3.5 : Re: Sampling in pov3.5 Server Time
8 Jul 2024 17:58:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sampling in pov3.5  
From: Mael
Date: 3 Jan 2003 12:50:35
Message: <3e15cd6b@news.povray.org>
> As Apache, I'm surprised to see the distribution fills a square
> and not a circle. Actually the first 20 samples clearly show that
> the circle is the target, which is logical (I kinda remind that
> the 3.1g source code tells it).
> Could you just explain how you obtain those pictures for
> the focal blur distribution ?

I output the Sample_Grid array to a text file for a focal blur of 300
samples.
(and if you look into the mlpov documentation at bokeh_pigment you will see
an image that clearly shows that pov uses a uniform distribution in a
square)

M


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