I was spending some time investigating low-quality media settings trying to
find good settings to do early renderings at fast speeds when I stumbled
onto a curiousity. I was using method 1 and noticed that the render times
decreased when I went from "samples 1,1 interval 10" to "samples 5,5
interval 10" or "samples 1,1 interval 20". 

When I looked at the log outputs, the 1,1/10 setting produced over 5x the
Samples/Pixel in the rendering stats than either 5,5/10 or 1,1/20 settings.
Has anyone seen this before or know what's going on? 

Thanks,

Mike K
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http://povray.tashcorp.net

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Mike Kost wrote:
> I was spending some time investigating low-quality media settings trying
> to find good settings to do early renderings at fast speeds when I
> stumbled onto a curiousity. I was using method 1 and noticed that the
> render times decreased when I went from "samples 1,1 interval 10" to
> "samples 5,5 interval 10" or "samples 1,1 interval 20".
> 
> When I looked at the log outputs, the 1,1/10 setting produced over 5x the
> Samples/Pixel in the rendering stats than either 5,5/10 or 1,1/20
> settings. Has anyone seen this before or know what's going on?

This was cockpit error on my part. I had anti-aliasing on while rendering,
and the low-quality media was so bad that the anti-aliasing overworked to
compensate. 

Nothing to see here - move along. 

Mike
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http://povray.tashcorp.net

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