POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Quality difference btw V3.1 and V3.6 : Re: Quality difference btw V3.1 and V3.6 Server Time
1 Aug 2024 08:15:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quality difference btw V3.1 and V3.6  
From: olafcbx
Date: 26 Dec 2005 17:30:00
Message: <web.43b06e053a163c4cca4e75860@news.povray.org>
"olafcbx" <ola### [at] wxsnl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I retraced a scene I did previous with with V3.1 with V3.6 (for Windows).
> I rendered a lot faster, but I am not happy with the quality.
> The Anti aliassing looks worce, and I noticed strange black lines on edgeds
> that I havent seen before.
>
> As the images are 7800 x 5200 pixels I do not include them :-)
>
> This is the .ini file I used for both V3.1 and V3.6
>
> I re-rendered the same scene with 3.1 and 3.6 again to be sure and used
> Paint Shop pro to compare side-by-side.
>
> Is there a known problem or a fix?
> Or can I no longer expect the same results without a modification in the
> ..ini file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Olaf
>
> ------------- the ini file used ----------------
>
> ; O. Veenstra  2003/06/29
> ; cbx total for zazzle
> ;------------------------
> Input_file_name     = raytracezazzlecbxscenescbx_zazzle_01.pov
> Output_File_Type    = N
> output_file_name    = raytracetile_colorfull_7800_5200_v31
>
> Library_Path        = raytracezazzlecbxscenes
>
> Width               = 7800
> Height              = 5200
>
> Quality             = 9
>
>
> ; anti alias options
> ; ------------------
>
> antialias               =    On
> antialias_Threshold     =    0.5
>
> Sampling_Method         =    2
> Jitter                  =    Off
>
> display = no

I put some examples of the quality problems I found on the following site:

http://home.wxs.nl/~olafveen/povray/povray.html

Here you can see the results of both V3.1 and V3.6

Olaf


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