Hello:

Does anyone of you know whats the difference between these two by default
settings  for radiosity in POVRAY?:

Radiosity_OutdoorLQ
Radiosity_OutdoorHQ

For instance.
 The average number of iterations.
 The minumun distance before the coefficients are made equal to zero.
 The ambient and diffuse settings.


But mostly what are the differences in the algorithms used.

For instance a manual setting macro for radiosity looks like this:

global_settings {
    radiosity {
      pretrace_start 0.08
      pretrace_end   0.04
      count 35

      nearest_count 5
      error_bound 1.8
      recursion_limit 3

      low_error_factor 0.5
      gray_threshold 0.0
      minimum_reuse 0.015
      brightness 1

      adc_bailout 0.01/2
    }
  }

How would this compare to the other two "by default" quick settings?

Thank You in advance for any information on this.

Einar.

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