Hi David,

It looks like you may have hit the sampling quirk which I reported on
p.b-t - it shows up most with low error_bound values because the
radiosity samples are sharp and not averaged across the surfaces.
Hopefully a fix will come out in a not-too-distant beta.

Bye for now,
	Mike Andrews.

David Heys wrote:
> 
> Well, after seeing some of the posts I thought I'd give 3.5's radiosity a
> stab. I started with Rick(Kitty)'s settings for his "Outdoing Brazil" post
> and went from there. There's one, dim light source (rgb 0.06) in the scene
> and a few items with high diffuse/ambient settings (diffuse 0.8 ambient
> 0.8). Render time was 6h 30m 52s at 640*480.
> 
> Global settings were:
> 
> global_settings {
>   adc_bailout 0.003922
>   ambient_light <1.0,1.0,1.0>
>   assumed_gamma 1.9
>   hf_gray_16 off
>   irid_wavelength <0.247059,0.176471,0.137255>
>   max_intersections 64
>   max_trace_level 20
>   number_of_waves 10
>   radiosity {
>     brightness       13.804
>     count            1100
>     distance_maximum 0.0
>     error_bound      0.0157
>     gray_threshold   0.2119
>     low_error_factor 0.0009
>     minimum_reuse    0.1875
>     nearest_count    3
>     recursion_limit  1
>   }
> }
> 
> Any comments or advice, especially on help reducing the artifaacts, would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Witherin
> 
>  [Image]

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