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  Re: Old Paperweights 2, with photons  
From: Thomas Lake
Date: 17 May 2002 20:15:59
Message: <3ce59d3f@news.povray.org>

> I used a photon count of 200000. I'm rendering it again at a
> slightly different angle and with half that count. Should be more
> realistic caustics. This render will be 800x600 and a stereoscopic
> pair, so that will take perhaps the whole weekend to complete.
> It is currently rendering at less than 1 PPS.

Actually as I understand photons count should not increase the brightness of
the photons but the accuracy with which they are calculated/rendered, which
of course could end up brightening them if you start off with a low count
and increase it to a really high count.


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