POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Sampling in pov3.5 : Re: Sampling in pov3.5 Server Time
8 Jul 2024 18:00:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sampling in pov3.5  
From: Mael
Date: 6 Jan 2003 08:31:59
Message: <3e19854f@news.povray.org>
> I am not sure what you measure in that graph but when i talk about 'cosine
> theta distribution' i mean the density of the samples (i.e. the inverse of
> the mean distance between samples).  Of course there are very few samples
> at small theta because the region of the hemisphere with small theta is
> small - none the less the density is high.

ok, i understand, if I divide by the area for a theta, I will get the
cos(theta) distribution
this is more clear now :)

M


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