POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Graininess : Re: Graininess Server Time
31 Jul 2024 10:28:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Graininess  
From: Alain
Date: 13 Jan 2008 13:07:24
Message: <478a535c$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/01/12 18:45:
> Trevor G Quayle escribió:
>> Yes I noticed this and mentioned it.  I'm not sure how POV is handling 
>> them, but
>> it was causing massive slowdowns for me.
> 
> I think graininess (caused by coincident surfaces) makes POV attempt a 
> *lot* of antialiasing.
Anything that cause random graininess with aa will cause a large slowdown.

crand, sparse jittered area_light, coincident surfaces.

-- 
Alain
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"The fact that windows is one of the most popular ways to operate a computer 
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            -- Anon.


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