Kenneth <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> I should have been more detailed in my follow-up to your images. What
> strikes me immediately is that lightgrid.jpg (which I take to be an array
> of real point lights) produces *much* smoother illumination on the wall and
> sphere than does the area light.  Surprisingly so.

  Why surprisingly?

> And the shadows from the
> sphere look smoother than I would have imagined.

  Well, there's the same amount of point lights than in the area light.
The shadows should be pretty similar.

> Do you happen to recall
> the difference in rendering times of the two images?

  Nope. I might try to find the original scene and re-render to measure
the times.

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