POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test.binaries : FYI: radiosity changes integrated : Re: FYI: radiosity changes integrated Server Time
19 May 2024 10:50:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: FYI: radiosity changes integrated  
From: stbenge
Date: 18 Jan 2009 23:57:06
Message: <49740822$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> stbenge <^@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> But clipka seems to be
>> concerned about the speed as well, so I probably have nothing to worry
>> about :)
> 
> Rrrrright!
> 
> Radiosity is just about slow enough as it is (um, well, I mean, was in 3.6). I'd
> have accepted a slowdown of something like factor 2 as a price for artifact-free
> renders, because it would probably mean that old quality would be obtailable at
> old speed by choosing different settings. But we're talking about factors of 10
> or more.

That's steep, to be sure.

> I won't accept anything that looks like you can't get the same quality as 3.6 at
> roughly the same speed.

Well, if things go wrong I can always stock old versions of POV and head 
for the bunker :)

Sam


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