POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Mini Patch Bug ? : Re: Mini Patch Bug ? Server Time
3 Sep 2024 00:16:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mini Patch Bug ?  
From: Jerome M  BERGER
Date: 27 Sep 1999 23:54:05
Message: <37F03BD1.A374A6C0@enst.fr>
TonyB wrote:
> 
> >I also tried making a variety of modifications to media, including evenly
> >spaced samples and supersampling, but I couldn't get supersampling to work
> >properly either.  I now know what I was doing wrong.  Make sure that when
> >you super-sample, you give the super-samples less weight in the average.
> >I.E. if you add a new sample between two existing samples, the new weights
> >of the existing samples plus the weight of the new sample should still add
> >up to the sum of the original weights of the two original samples.  Ok...
> >that sounds a lot more confusing than I intended.
> 
> Makes perfect sense to me.
> 
> A1 = original pixel 1
> B1 = original pixel 2
> A2 = new pixel 1
> B2 = new pixel 2
> C2 = supersampled pixel between A2 and B2
> 
> A1+B1 = A2+C2+B2
> 
> Right?

	Well, not exactly or you wouldn't need the supersampled pixel at all :)
but ideally yes (and as far as weight is concerned, yes)

		Jerome

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