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  Photon problem: 'pixelated' caustics  
From: Bruce Mardle
Date: 22 Oct 2009 04:15:01
Message: <web.4ae013b85bfa9f2cc57370f30@news.povray.org>
Hiya.
I've had a root around but can't find any help on this problem.
I'm trying to make an image with caustics cast by Bezier patches.
With photon spacing 0.01 I get suspiciously blurry caustics, so I tried photon
spacing 0.001 and the resulting caustics are made up of conspicuous flat-shaded
quadrilaterals.
You can see the 2 pics at:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.editAlbumPhoto&albumID=344068&imageID=54508714
and
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.editAlbumPhoto&albumID=344068&imageID=54508715

(Actually, having seen the 0.001 pic it's easy to spot the quads in the 0.01
pic. They're there but blurry.)

Any suggestions on photon settings I could try to make the caustics sharp and
realistic? Or is it a problem with the Bezier patches?


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