On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 22:10:48 +0100, Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> In article <3c0e86ee@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
> 
>> : speed==quality
>>
>>   You still haven't explained this. What the h*** has speed to do with image
>> quality?
> 
> I think his idea is that a good raytracer should be faster at a potentially
> lower quality of the resulting image

I think he's saying that the faster the raytracer, the more image quality 
you can get in a given amount of time.  For example, if POV were twice as
fast, you could crank down the AA threshold a bit and still keep a comparable
render time.

But then, I'm not reading his posts as Vanna has stopped selling me vowels
to go with them.

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