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30 Jun 2024 20:32:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: radiosity samples: 255x255x255 probably isn't enough  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 7 Jan 2003 15:38:27
Message: <3e1b3ac3@news.povray.org>
In article <3e1b35b0@news.povray.org> , "Anders K." <and### [at] kaseorgcom> 
wrote:

> You could use two shorts instead of three, and compute the third with z =
> sqrt(1 - x^2 - y^2). Then the memory use would only go up by 33% per sample.
> (Besides, it would probably be faster than vnormalizing the whole vector
> every time.)

I never looked at the radiosity code, but it does not use VNormalize insde
the radiosity calculations, does it???

    Thorsten

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