In article <4h9### [at] tritonimagicode>,
 Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> A remark on blurred reflection: a useful feature would probably an 
> adaptive sampling technique for this purpose - you send out a set of 
> rays from the surface of the reflective object and stop if their 
> returned colors do not differ more than  a certain threshold - otherwise 
> you send more rays.

Or until the variance drops below some value. Focal blur uses such an 
adaptive algorithm, it could probably be adapted to blurred reflection.

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