POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Area Light Setup : Re: Area Light Setup Server Time
25 Apr 2024 08:41:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Area Light Setup  
From: Alain Martel
Date: 27 Jan 2023 09:24:11
Message: <63d3de8b$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2023-01-26 à 14:40, Cousin Ricky a écrit :
> On 2023-01-25 12:22 (-4), Alain Martel wrote:
>>
>> Any sampling array size between those values will be silently increased
>> to the following size of the list. A 4 x 4 adaptive is really 5 x 5, 6 x
>> 6 is promoted to 9 x 9 and 10 x 10 become 17 x 17.
> 
> Not according to my tests.  The attached images were rendered with
> area_illumination to reveal the internal array of lights.

So, shining an area_light with adaptive AND area_illumination thru a 
small opening changes how adaptive work. Interesting.

Did you try without area_illumination ?


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