Op 11/02/2021 om 11:18 schreef William F Pokorny:
> On 2/11/21 2:40 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> Second state of the scene, this time rendered with stochastic aa. Took 
>> about 16 hours on an i5 laptop (for what it's worth). The quality is 
>> slightly better, especially where small twigs are concerned. I 
>> probably could use even better settings but I do not want to wait much 
>> longer for a render as other things are pressing.
>>
>> Following Bill's comment about Sam Benge's Luminous Bloom, I dusted 
>> the facility off, adapted it to latest pov version (gamma and 
>> emission) and tweaked the settings until I got this somewhat painterly 
>> output. I like it but am not going to experiment much further at present.
>>
> 
> Attaching an image of three image to image compares.
> 
> Top row your initial post to the one with stochastic aa. The middle row 
> your _2 post to the luminous bloom result. Bottom row your original post 
> compared to my first posted bloom filter image (the most blurry one).
> 
> Obvious the luminous bloom filter is acting differently than my AA based 
> bloom filter. Sam's being more luminous (true to its name) and less 
> blurry. Just now took a quick look at my local copy of his (version 7b). 
> I'd forgotten his has different modes of bloom (7 of them) plus ability 
> to cutomize many aspects! His filter is simply much more developed and 
> flexible with a somewhat different primary aim.
> 
> Bill P.

I forgot to mention that I used Sam's version 6, which only has his 
original bloom. Version 7 (a and/or b) have indeed some more options 
which I have not tried.

-- 
Thomas

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