Bob Hughes <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
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> "Alf Peake" <alf### [at] peake42freeservecouk> wrote in message
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> | Still too many black pixels, even with max_trace_level 85, but AA
0.01
> | gets rid of most of them at this resolution. ADC_bailout does'nt
help
> | much even at 0.05
>
> Just over an hour to render isn't bad.
> About the 85 for max trace, were you going by what the statistics
show?  I would have thought that
Yes, I get 85/85, and I realised it was probably overkill on my part
persuing it.

> you could use a third that number easily.  Black dropped out pixels
aren't the same as dark pixels
> :-)  I don't see anything wrong in this image anyhow.  Well, except
I was trying to see the blue
> caustics and finally realized it looks spread out and less intense
as the others.
It is spread. I wasn't happy about poor blue caustics either but
assumed it was something to do with the way RGB values are weighted.
Its clearer with ior 1.2 but I wanted around 1.5

> It's a great glass dragonfly but that rear pair of wings, at the
connecting points as someone
> already said, could use a better joining.
The wings actually do penetrate the red blob, as can be seen in my 26k
jpeg reply to Tor (In this thread I'm only able to reply to my
original post, otherwise post goes to my ISP news server, not
news.pov). I don't know if its a photon thing or not. Will check when
I get the tine :)

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> Bob

Alf

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