POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Photons in Mega0.6 and Pov 3.5 (50kbu) : Re: Photons in Mega0.6 and Pov 3.5 (50kbu) Server Time
16 Aug 2024 08:14:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photons in Mega0.6 and Pov 3.5 (50kbu)  
From: Gail Shaw
Date: 5 Mar 2002 15:07:01
Message: <3c852565@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote in message <3C84CE88.28528319@gmx.de>...
>
>Just FYI, it's:
>
>* dispersion_samples affects photon brightness (job000193)
>  (higher dispersion_samples also gives brighter refractive photons)
>  Reported in:
>Bug: dispersion_samples affects photon brightness
>http://news.povray.org/MPG.1631c5fca936293298969e@news.povray.org

I saw that, not sure if it's the same thing. I had dispersion samples higher
than the default
(using 17, default is 7) and the caustics were much dimmer than without
dispersion.

I'll experiment some more tomorrow.

Gail
*************************************************************************
* gai### [at] mwebcoza  *   Chaos, disorder and panic      *
* http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail/   *   My job here is done.           *
*************************************************************************
* Just think of me as the storm before the calm     Magic: The Gathering*
*************************************************************************


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.