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28 Jul 2024 12:32:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: beta31 how to turn off mosaic preview?  
From: clipka
Date: 24 Feb 2009 16:30:00
Message: <web.49a4661c287f1c2addaa9d30@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > but 3.7beta31 renders with mosaic preview (no, not the
> > multicore-cpu-cells).
>
> If the image is rendering in little blocks instead of line-by-line top-down,
> that's expected. It's not mosaic preview. It's how the multithreading
> feature of POV-Ray 3.7 works. The image is divided into tiles, and each
> thread is assigned a tile to render. When the thread finishes rendering a
> tile, it starts with another.

I guess that's what Physiker meant with "multicore-cpu-cells".

How about radiosity? The pretrace looks like mosaic preview, too.


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