Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> Just downloaded 3.7b24 to try it out ... is the effect
> of area_light with area_illumination basically identical
> to using a grid of normal light_sources, but still more
> efficient due to adaptive sampling?

  Btw, I suppose you didn't see my post about the subject
in the beta group. I posted links to an example:

  This is an image rendered with a regular old area_light (rendered with
"-w800 -h600 +a0.1 +am2"):

http://warp.povusers.org/images/arealighttest1.jpg

  It took 13 seconds to render in my computer.

  This is the same scene, but the area light has been replaced with the
equivalent grid of point lights:

http://warp.povusers.org/images/arealighttest2.jpg

  This took 1 min 51 seconds to render.

  This is, again, the area_light, but with the new full area lighting
feature turned on:

http://warp.povusers.org/images/arealighttest3.jpg

  This took 36 seconds to render.

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