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Slime wrote:
| I would guess that what is happening is in test1, the first sample
of a ray
| is well lit and the other 9 are poorly lit or dark (due to self
shadowing).
| While in test2, the first sample is well lit and the other 199 are
poorly
| lit or dark. So the percentage of lit samples in the first is much
greater,
| causing it to be significantly brighter. This is only happening
because the
| media is so dense that it becomes dark at a very shallow level.
|
	You are essentially correct, except that the adaptive sampling
*should* take care of that. However it looks like there are some
speed optimizations in POV that prevent it from working in the case
of a constant density media (see my reply to Jellby).

		Jerome
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