Wow! That looks really good.

As for anti-aliasing, I think it still works the same if you're doing focal
blur, the two effects should be completely independent (anti-aliasing just works
by adaptively sampling as if you were doing a higher-res image).

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Andy Cocker <big### [at] mariner9fsnetcouk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Before everyone asks for the cloud code, I'll own up. I cheated.. the
> background including sea is from Terragen. It's not really cheating tho, as
> this was an experiment in using a background image.
>
> I have a question though: when focal blur is used, a different method of
> anti-aliasing is used. Is there any way that this can be controlled *in the
> parts of the image that are in focus*? In this image, there are a few
> jaggies near the centre of the 'flower' that I cannot get to disappear. I've
> gone as high as 160 blur_samples and 0 variance, and I definitely don't want
> to have to render at a much higher resolution and re-sample downwards (it
> would take too long).
>
> All the best,
>
> Andy Cocker
>
>
>

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