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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 5 Jan 2003 06:29:22
Message: <3E181712.681F60D1@gmx.de>

Apache wrote:
> 
> My box is currently calculating a set of 6400 samples. It seems it will take
> quite some time, but whenever it's finished, I'll let you know.
> 
> The ordering is very good, so with very low samples the distribution is very
> good. If the count is set to 6400, the distribution is equal to the golden
> ration distribution. (See Thies Heidecke's post in this conversation.)

You should note that this is a regular distribution, therefore will be
likely to generate regular artefacts under certain circumstances.  Using
regular distributions has been tried before, see for example:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/albedo/patchedpov.html

Christoph

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