> If you're talking about that light leaking though walls and the like, that's
> actually the high error_bound samples, not the low ones.

   Yes, I'm talking about these... but my experience says they appear at low 
error_bound values... ?!?!?

>>    Now, if someone is interested, I had the strange idea that a
>> fade_distance  for reflections will help making blurred reflections with
>> averaged normals... but I'm unable to test on my head if it will work.
> 
> Now it's me who understands just half of what you're saying :)
> 

   Sorry, I was too short on the explanation... what I mean is that when you 
look at blurred reflections in RL, the reflection seems to disappear at some 
distance from the reflected object. I know the reflection is there, but very 
blurred... but in practice it looks like this is just the underlying 
material color.

   Now, if you had a fade_distance keyword on the reflection{} statement, 
which attenuates the reflection until it reaches 0 for objects beyond the 
specified distance, perhaps this would help getting less noisy materials 
with the existing blurring techniques (averaged layers with big normals, 
micronormals,...).

   But as I said, my ideas turn to be nonsense often... and also it seems 
too simple to not have been figured out before.


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Jaime

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