Flux <kid### [at] usfamilynet> wrote:
: My god, that's crisp!  I always thought that when focal blur is used, it takes
: over for AA.  But if that's the case, shouldn't we be seeing just a bit of bad
: / non AA-ing, at least somewhere?  This image holds none.  Its just the most
: crisp image I think I've ever seen.  Beautiful...

  I would also believe that the lack of antialiasing would cause aliasing
artifacts in the sharpest zone. However, it doesn't seem to be so. It may
be that even the smallest difference in sample ray directions is enough
to produce a smooth result.
  Of course proper focal blur settings are needed to get a smooth result.
These settings don't even make it slow: Rendering this image at 640x480
took less than 3 minutes in my 1.2GHz Athlon.
  (I don't remember the settings I used, and I don't have the scene file
here at work, as it is in my home computer...)

  By the way, the 640x480 version can be found at my images page:
http://iki.fi/warp/pics/

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