John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > (I have to admit, though, that I can think of variations where
> > samples can be jittered *and* shared between pixels. However, I don't know
> > exactly what POV-Ray is doing.)

> I don't see a problem with jittering a shared sample.  Samples can be 
> assigned to a particular place in the pixel, and this assignment used to 
> determine any sharing between pixels (or sub-pixels, since this is 
> adaptive); when the sample is actually traced, it can be jittered at 
> that time.

  Which is what I said. :)

  Maybe if POV-Ray doesn't currently share antialiasing samples between
pixel someone could take a look how difficult it would be to make a patch
to do exactly that.

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                                                          - Warp

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