POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : YMPRF : Re: YMPRF Server Time
18 Aug 2024 06:13:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: YMPRF  
From: Xplo Eristotle
Date: 16 Jul 2001 18:06:38
Message: <3B5365D2.CA468766@infomagic.com>
Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
> > If you have a lot of time and a ton of RAM to burn, you can try dropping
> > error-bound to some absurdly small figure (.03 or thereabouts). You'll
> > still have artifacts, but with any luck (and a bit of tweaking to find
> > the right numbers) they'll be so small that you won't be able to see them.
> 
> My experience has been that in scenes with pure radiosity lowering
> error_bound does more harm than good. Usually you get thousands of
> artefacts, like there are hundreds of light sources casting hundreds of
> shadows or something. You can't go below about 0.4 before the scene becomes
> unsaveable.

Well, yes. But as the artifacts become smaller than a pixel, they
eventually "disappear", averaged out of existence.

Like I said, you need a lot of time and a ton of RAM to burn. ^^;

-Xplo


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