POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: 3.5 Radiosity - importance sampling?: Re: 3.5 Radiosity

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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 21 Apr 2002 13:03:43
Message: <3CC2F0EF.6DDAF486@gmx.de>

George Pantazopoulos wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>     Does POVRay 3.5 use some kind of importance sampling or weighted
> importance sampling when taking random samples to solve the diffuse
> interreflection integral? I've been looking at the MegaPOV source but its
> not yet clear to me if this is the case or if it applies here.

If you explain what 'importance sampling' is i'm quite sure i can answer
your question.

Christoph

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