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From: Yvo Smellenbergh
Subject: Possible error in "Photon count" message.
Date: 6 Jun 2010 05:05:17
Message: <1jjnw18.1o6tbtm1w3kc4gN%yvo.s@cancel_This_gmx.net>
The "Photon count", especially noticeable when rendering benchmark.pov,
is going up and down.
Should it not only increment?

You find this message at the bottom of the message window, the behavior
is the same on Windows and Mac.


Yvo
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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Possible error in "Photon count" message.
Date: 6 Jun 2010 09:08:03
Message: <4c0b9db3$1@news.povray.org>
On 06.06.10 11:05, Yvo Smellenbergh wrote:
> The "Photon count", especially noticeable when rendering benchmark.pov,
> is going up and down.
> Should it not only increment?
>
> You find this message at the bottom of the message window, the behavior
> is the same on Windows and Mac.

IIRC the photon count output as progress is that of the current photon block 
in progress. if there are multiple, it might restart counting. All iirc.

	Thorsten


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Possible error in "Photon count" message.
Date: 6 Jun 2010 13:33:09
Message: <4c0bdbd5$1@news.povray.org>
Am 06.06.2010 11:05, schrieb Yvo Smellenbergh:
> The "Photon count", especially noticeable when rendering benchmark.pov,
> is going up and down.
> Should it not only increment?
>
> You find this message at the bottom of the message window, the behavior
> is the same on Windows and Mac.

This happens whenever POV-Ray starts multiple photon shooting tasks: 
Each photon shooting task will report its own progress, and no 
consolidation is done whatsoever; instead, the progress bar will show 
the progress of whichever task sent the most recent status update.


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From: Yvo Smellenbergh
Subject: Re: Possible error in "Photon count" message.
Date: 7 Jun 2010 11:02:54
Message: <1jjq7c6.tbij2o6pfcroN%yvo.s@cancel_This_gmx.net>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> Am 06.06.2010 11:05, schrieb Yvo Smellenbergh:
> > The "Photon count", especially noticeable when rendering benchmark.pov,
> > is going up and down.
> > Should it not only increment?
> >
> > You find this message at the bottom of the message window, the behavior
> > is the same on Windows and Mac.
> 
> This happens whenever POV-Ray starts multiple photon shooting tasks: 
> Each photon shooting task will report its own progress, and no 
> consolidation is done whatsoever; instead, the progress bar will show
> the progress of whichever task sent the most recent status update.

Thanks for the info.

yvo


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