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30 Jun 2024 21:02:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: radiosity samples: 255x255x255 probably isn't enough  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 7 Jan 2003 16:11:09
Message: <3e1b426d$1@news.povray.org>
In article <3E1B3FDE.4F8CC9FA@gmx.de> , Christoph Hormann 
<chr### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> Be careful, this could possibly 'break' old radiosity scenes because the
> directions will slightly differ (although the differences will not be
> large of course).  Calculating the direction vectors at the beginning and
> not during every ra_gather() call would be a good idea IMO.  I already
> made this modification for Megapov in case you want it.

Already in 3.51, too.  The speed gain does not seem to be too much, though
:-(

    Thorsten

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