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  Re: Scale radiosity data with focal blur  
From: nemesis
Date: 9 Jan 2009 22:40:00
Message: <web.496817bd29c25e265ba4bf620@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:
> A quick note about something I just discovered...
>
>    When using two-pass radiosity, if you use a little focal blur during the
> first pass (just a few blur samples is enough), the you can scale up the
> render size on the second pass without suffering the typical artefacts (and
> you don't need to use focal blur on the final pass).
>
>    I've used this trick successfully with the first pass at 320x240 and the
> second at 1024x768. So, for the first pass I'm now using that in the camera:
>
>    aperture .01 blur_samples 7 focal_point <,,>
>
>    Regards,
>
> --
> Jaime

Always a man of many tricks! :)

good to see you're back at povving!


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