Nathan Kopp wrote:

> Technically, no.  But area lights use distributed techniques.  And then
> someone added focal blur.

    Couldn't the focal blur code be altered to also take samples at different
points in time?  There would be need to store the scene similar to the current
motion blur but the sampling would be integrated with DOF.  Or have I
misunderstood how it works?

> Anyway, at its core, POV was not designed for animation, so all objects in a
> scene are static.  Therefore, it would be quite difficult to jitter an
> object in the time domain during rendering.

    It's more the ray that gets jittered, similar to DOF, than the actual
object.  You'd just need to hold the different sample points in memory similar
to the current implementation.  Wouldn't you?

    C.

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