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From: Margus Ramst
Subject: Re: media problems
Date: 18 May 2000 13:44:35
Message: <39241E32.91D4DE8@peak.edu.ee>
Nathan Kopp wrote:
> 
> There was a bug if you choose 3 or fewer samples, and I've found it and
> fixed it.  There may be other bugs, though.
> 

Well, the demo scene works fine with samples >1, and I haven't noticed any
significant quality jump going from 3 to more samples in any of my tests.

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Margus Ramst

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From: Nathan Kopp
Subject: Re: media problems
Date: 18 May 2000 13:46:51
Message: <39242c8b@news.povray.org>
Margus Ramst <mar### [at] peakeduee> wrote...
> Nathan Kopp wrote:
> >
> > There was a bug if you choose 3 or fewer samples, and I've found it and
> > fixed it.  There may be other bugs, though.
> >
>
> Well, the demo scene works fine with samples >1, and I haven't noticed any
> significant quality jump going from 3 to more samples in any of my tests.
>

Maybe the bug only happened for samples=1.  Anyway, it was a
division-by-zero problem because somewhere we were dividing by
(sampleCount - 1).

-Nathan


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