Why is the limit on radiosity samples 1600?  I think
both my computer and patience can handle much more than
that.

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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> schreef in bericht
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> Why is the limit on radiosity samples 1600?  I think
> both my computer and patience can handle much more than
> that.

:)

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Creating a set of good samples is more difficult than it seems. I created a
set that enables 32000 samples, but someone told me that the distribution
wasn't isotropic. When I asked what would be the meaning of isotropic in
this matter, I never got a reply!

so: WHAT WOULD BE AN ISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTION?????

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Apache wrote:
> so: WHAT WOULD BE AN ISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTION?????

Evenly spaced, with no clumping.

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Apache wrote:
> 
> Creating a set of good samples is more difficult than it seems. I created a
> set that enables 32000 samples, but someone told me that the distribution
> wasn't isotropic. When I asked what would be the meaning of isotropic in
> this matter, I never got a reply!

Maybe it would be a good idea to actually read the replies you get...

Subject: Re: 32000 radio samples (there we go again)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:57:30 +0200
Newsgroups: povray.unofficial.patches
From: Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
news://news.povray.org/3E95B08A.4A0A78B3@gmx.de
http://news.povray.org/3E95B08A.4A0A78B3@gmx.de

Christoph

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I can't connect to my computer where I've stored "my" 32000 set, but now I
understand what you're saying and if I remember correctly the 32000 set is
perfectly all right because the densities of the distribution is like the
original 1600 set.

In the same thread I got confused about how radiosity works with the samples
set. It was said that no matter the error_bound and other vars, the amount
of samples taken always equals count. I'm still confused! What's the use of
the other vars if count is the only var that matters?
http://news.povray.org/povray.unofficial.patches/31179/221535/#221535

Regards,
Apache

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