POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Blurred reflections : Re: Blurred reflections Server Time
23 Apr 2024 08:01:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Blurred reflections  
From: clipka
Date: 8 Feb 2018 04:15:47
Message: <5a7c1543$1@news.povray.org>
Am 08.02.2018 um 06:11 schrieb Mike Horvath:
> On 2/7/2018 3:41 PM, clipka wrote:
>> Am 07.02.2018 um 02:17 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>>> I tried scaling by 1/1000 instead of 1000, but the render time has not
>>> improved noticeably. UberPOV blurred reflection is still much much
>>> faster.
>>
>> Just replacing macro- with micronormals doesn't do anything to render
>> times. The key is to get rid of the `average texture_map` and use just a
>> single texture.
>>
> 
> So, all I have to do is add a tiny focal blur?

Provided you're indeed using a single texture rather than `average
texture_map` and all that jazz - yes.

The quality of the blurred reflections will then depend on the focal
blur settings.


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