Am 07.06.2011 01:40, schrieb Jim Holsenback:

> Question about pretrace_end ... won't a smaller value make more of the
> samples to be gathered in the final pass? I thought it was better to
> shoot for having the final pass sample count about half the total.

No. The smaller the pretrace_end, the higher the density the pretrace 
can theoretically produce, and the fewer therefore the spots missed 
during pretrace, which need to be sampled in the final pass (i.e. the 
render proper).

(Theoretically we'd want the final pass sample count to be zero, but 
then we also want the render to finish in our lifetime.)

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