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1 Jun 2024 08:27:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: to clip or not to clip...  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 1 Apr 2005 02:19:07
Message: <424CF6B7.371A6494@gmx.de>
Jaime Vives Piqueres schrieb:
> 
> Hi all:
> 
>      Being a bit upset with the ultrabright artifacts produced by focal
> blur while doing some HDRI tests, and after failing to alleviate them
> with insane amounts of blur_samples, confidence and variance, I decided
> to take my first look ever to the source code....
> 
>      I was sure to be wasting my time looking at something I will not
> understand, but surprisingly, I found really quickly a call to
> Clip_Colour() commented out on render.cpp, inside the focal_blur()
> function. I restored that line back and just compiled again... you have
> the results posted on p.b.i: both images where rendered using 35 blur
> samples.

As others have said this is exactly the same as with antialiasing.

Note that next MegaPOV will offer a solution to apply whatever you want
- before or after antialiasing and anything between clipping or not
clipping.

-- Christoph


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