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  Re: I have a great idea!  
From: nemesis
Date: 24 Aug 2009 12:31:26
Message: <4a92c05e@news.povray.org>
Chambers escreveu:
> clipka wrote:
>> nemesis schrieb:
>>> At least until very recently V-Ray used regular biased backwards 
>>> raytracing with
>>> photon mapping, except incredibly optimized.  Perhaps those speckles 
>>> in the
>>> video have simply something to do with the GPU calculating an insane 
>>> amount of
>>> rays and rendering pixels out of order?
>>
>> Well, maybe they're artifacts of the photon mapping; that would appear 
>> to be quite fitting.
> 
> They're artifacts of forward based monte-carlo GI.

isn't Photon Mapping a forward-based monte-carlo GI technique itself?

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