Mosaic preview at fault for the blocks? Oh boy, that's worse than I
would have ever supposed it to be. But great to hear of that anyhow.

Mike wrote:
> 
> One thing you can try is raising the low_error_factor to 0.8 or .9.  For
> some reason the smoothing doesn't seem to work as well when it's lower.
> Either that or the samples aren't evenly dispersed at the lower setting.
> To be honest I'm not sure why it is, but the blocky patterns are
> definitely an artifact of the mosaic preview.
> 
> Also try raising the distance_maximum and reduce minimum_reuse.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> > Radiosity settings :
> >     count 800
> >     error_bound 0.2
> >     gray_threshold 0.4
> >     distance_maximum 0.4
> >     low_error_factor 0.6
> >     nearest_count 9
> >     minimum_reuse 0.006
> >     brightness 3.3
> >     recursion_limit 2
> >
> > The "light" is background{color White*10}
> > The box size is approximately 20 pov units wide.
> > Rendering time at 800x600, no aa, was 7 hours on a Pentium Pro 200, NT.
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  [Image]

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