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On Wed, 17 May 2000 01:29:43 -0400, "Mark Wagner"
<mar### [at] gte net> 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 :) )
Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] usa net
TAG e-mail : pet### [at] tag povray org
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