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clipka wrote:
> Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>> intervals 1 samples 100 is much FASTER than intervals 10 samples 10 or samples
>> 10,10. If you use samples 10, 50 the value after the coma is always ignored when
>> using the default sampling method.
> 
> I never really managed to grasp why the intervals are there in the first
> place...
> 
	Historical reasons and method 1. Until pov 3.1 included, the  only
available method was method 1. In this case, sampling is completely
random inside each interval, but the intervals take into account the
cones of the available spotlights. This was simply a way to force
more samples to be taken inside spotlights than outside. With
adaptive sampling, there is much less need (especially since the
optimal number of intervals is now computed automatically anyway).

		Jerome
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