thanks again,

will post results soon.  will post more questions.  will lose sleep.  ;-)



Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Axel R DuVirage <axe### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > i always thought that `samples` variable would come into play some day.
> > what are average/useful settings?  do i start with min 10 and max 1000 or
> > just experiment/tweak until iget the results i need?
>
>   Since proper settings depend on almost everything in your scene, getting
> good values is usually a question of trying until you find them.
>   The default values of media give acceptable results for a wide range of
> scenes, but in many cases happens as with your image. In that case you
> just need to fine-tune them. Your case seems quite clearly a too low
> samples value, so pumping it up should help (of course it will probably
> make rendering slower, but there's always a price to pay for more
> accuracy).
>
> --
> #macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
> [1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
> -1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

Post a reply to this message