POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Challenging radiosity : Re: Challenging radiosity Server Time
4 Nov 2024 17:57:23 EST (-0500)
  Re: Challenging radiosity  
From: triple r
Date: 4 Apr 2008 10:25:00
Message: <web.47f647d5fe9c4eeaae42298f0@news.povray.org>
"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> As others have said it's a beautiful render, and I would never have thought the
> artifacts were such if you hadn't said so.

I guess you're right.  It's just that the perfectionist in me would rather get
rid of the radiosity artifacts and simulate the same effect with a texture than
consider the artifacts a feature.
>
> I would definitely try lowering pretrace_end, and maybe an error_bound of 0.2 or
> 0.1. Also, make sure minimum_reuse is nice and small too - the default is 0.015
> but you could try 0.01 or 0.005. All of this will slow the render
> significantly, but I have found it effective (although every radiosity scene is
> different). You may also need to raise count a little too but see how it goes.

Thanks!  I'll try that.

 - Ricky


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