Chambers schrieb:
> Actually not bad, for having a single primitive type and an extremely 
> simplified test scene :)
> 
> BTW, one thing I've always disliked about many GI renderers is the need 
> to perform multiple passes to get rid of the speckles.  POV's method of 
> a single, high quality pass is, I believe, much to be preferred.

For real-time rendering the multi-pass approach is much better suited 
though: Just re-starting the render whenever the user pans or dollys 
around gives you a simple and low-latency way of trading speed vs. quality.

I don't think it matters much /how/ a good-quality render is achieved, 
provided that it is achieved in due time. I'd actually prefer a coarse 
speckled preview over being able to quickly see the top-left corner in 
full quality :-), and the only reason why I prefer POV-Ray over MCPov is 
that I think POV-Ray in most cases gives almost the same quality in much 
shorter time (due to the caching of data), and that I find MCPov hard to 
set up (due to the inevitable hassle with portals because it doesn't 
support POV-Ray's classic lighting model).

And strictly speaking, POV-Ray can't do GI in a single pass either: It 
needs radiosity pretrace to achieve any reasonable quality.

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