POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Motecarlo path tracing with MegaPov 1.2.1 : Re: Motecarlo path tracing with MegaPov 1.2.1 Server Time
2 Aug 2024 20:15:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Motecarlo path tracing with MegaPov 1.2.1  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 12 Feb 2008 15:04:29
Message: <47b1fbcd$1@news.povray.org>

> How many rays were shot to create your last image? I'm just wondering
> how fast the code actually has to be in order to get any feasible
> results. So how many rays one wants to shoot per pixel to get bearable
> noise.

AFAIK, this algorithm doesn't shoot rays per pixel, really. Just lots of 
rays, and starting from the light.

Note it's not the common "backwards raytracing" like POV-Ray has. This 
is forwards.


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