POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Media, Intervals, samples and getting results : Re: Media, Intervals, samples and getting results Server Time
2 Aug 2024 06:20:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Media, Intervals, samples and getting results  
From: Slime
Date: 3 Jan 2005 13:19:36
Message: <41d98cb8$1@news.povray.org>
> It seems with one interval, I don't get good results. If I up the
> intervals to 5 or 10, it seems to work better, but is slower in general.
>
> Anyone have any clue about the relationship and why the manual asks to
> use only 1 interval?


Well, more intervals causes more sampling since there are the same number of
samples per interval.

What the documentation is saying is that, if you need better results, you
should increase the sample count rather than the interval count.

 - Slime
 [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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