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1 Aug 2024 06:20:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Another mcpov render  
From: Severi Salminen
Date: 20 Feb 2009 17:24:42
Message: <499f2daa$1@news.povray.org>
Kenneth wrote:

> So as I understand it, the more random-grain individual images that are averaged
> together (images from different users on different machines), the better and
> more accurate the scene becomes? That's fascinating. Each of us could spend
> maybe 2 hours of spare computer time, rendering our (grainy) versions, them
> send them back to the original author for the final averaging step. That's
> just--cool!

But only if they all use a different random seed! Averaging the same
grainy image 10 times won't improve the results at all.

-- 
Severi Salminen
http://www.iki.fi/severi


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