POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Graininess : Re: Graininess Server Time
31 Jul 2024 10:19:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Graininess  
From: SharkD
Date: 13 Jan 2008 00:50:01
Message: <web.4789a63422fbe8cf6fbc0f680@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> SharkD wrote:
> > http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hslsphereshowgw2.jpg
> >
> > If you look at the above image you can see graininess where the square grid
> > overlaps the cut portion of the sphere? What causes this? Ususally stuff like
> > this only happens when there are coincident surfaces. I checked and there are
> > none. Moving the grid away from the sphere surface causes the problem to
> > lessen. Turning the light sources off causes it to go away. I've experimented
> > with changing to a parallel camera, parallel lights, turning off shadows and
> > reflection for objects, turning off ambient in global settings and in the
> > finish, turning off radiosity, etc....
>
> This looks simply like aliasing ... what happens if you use anti-aliasing
> with relatively high settings?
>
>  Thorsten

Setting the threshold to 0 doesn't eliminate the problem.


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