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4 Oct 2024 05:22:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Depth Of Field  
From: Margus Ramst
Date: 17 Apr 1999 21:48:31
Message: <37192bdf.0@news.povray.org>
I never doubted this could be done. But what's the render time? Is it worth
it?

Margus

Andrew Cocker wrote in message <37190e69.0@news.povray.org>...
>Hi all,
>
>    I just wanted to post this image to demonstrate to those of you that
don't already
>know that it is possible to get beautifully smooth DOF by cranking the
blur_samples up
>*much* higher than the figure of 45 as used in the demonstration file
focalb1.pov. I'd
>always assumed that this figure was as high as was neccessary, and the
grainy blurring was
>all that could be expected, but in this simple image I have attatched, the
DOF is very
>smooth. I used blur_samples 450 ( which may be overkill ) for this pic.
>    I hope it pleasantly surprises some of you, as it did me.
>
>all the best,
>
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>Andy
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