On Wed, 17 May 2000 01:29:43 -0400, "Mark Wagner"
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

>I've been working on getting POV to render images in random order, and the
>problems I've run into are:

>1) Antialiasing method 1:  Random order means that the program can't compare
>the color of the current pixel to the colors of the neighboring pixels when
>it is rendered.  The solution I'm going to use is to do an antialiasing pass

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>through the image after the first rendering pass is complete.
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Amen brother!

>4) Continued tracing:  POV normally determines where to continue rendering
>from by finding the first line in the image file that ends with a black
>pixel.  With a random rendering order, many lines will end with black
>pixels.  My solution is to record which pixel was rendered last in the image
>file.  This pixel is then used to determine which pixel to render next.

You'll have to remember the seed as well (but you already know that,
don't you :) )


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