Am 06.05.2010 10:19, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> This info is unclear to me: what is the default value of the new radiosity
> parameter maximum_reuse, and how to best use it in combination with
> minimum_reuse? Maybe a little addition to the Radiosity Voodoo can be
> expected...?   ;-)

maximum_reuse defaults to 0.2 - which was also the hard-coded value in 
POV-Ray 3.6.

In a nutshell, the parameter governs the maximum effective radius of 
radiosity samples in just the very same way as minimum_reuse governs the 
minimum effective radius; a value of 0.2, for instance, means that a 
sample at X units distance from the camera will be re-used within a 
radius of at most 0.2*X units.

Obviously this parameter should be > minimum_reuse at all times. While 
reducing the value will almost certainly increase rendering times, it 
might be useful e.g. in cases where you have wide open spaces with a few 
comparatively small objects, which the radiosity pretrace might tend to 
miss otherwise.

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