POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Future development of Pov Ray : Re: Future development of Pov Ray Server Time
31 Jul 2024 18:19:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Future development of Pov Ray  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 7 Feb 2007 07:00:32
Message: <45c9bf60$1@news.povray.org>
Gilles Tran schrieb:
> 
> This was in 2003 with C4D's "advanced render", and indeed the techniques 
> seemed very similar to POV-Ray's own. However, I recently tested the same 
> scene with finalRender and its Advanced Quasi Montecarlo engine and the gain 
> in speed and quality is really amazing (artifact-free render of the scene in 
> 10-20% of the original render time). I don't know whether these latest GI 
> (proprietary) techniques would work for scenes not based on meshes, but they 
> are quite impressive. finalRender can end up crawling like any other 
> renderer, but one can throw a lot of things at it before it does.

It would be great to see some results.  Testing with a single relatively 
simple sample scene is of course not really representative but still it 
would be very interesting.  Note there can of course be a difference 
between good-looking and accurate results.

-- Christoph


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