Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
nor radiosity.
> Care to make it with photons and some distersion? Remove the caustics keyword
> if you try it.

I tried it. I rendered it with photons (and without dispersion first), but
the shadows were too harsh. After your posting I tried it  again with  a
photons' spacing of 0.05 (previous was default spacing 0.01) and the
shadows seemed to be a little washed out. A compromise of 0.02 looked quite
nice, so I rendered it again with this spacing and an additional dispersion
1.05 and dispersion_samples of 20. That's the image of the second upload.
I think, this scene is an example where simpler is better, especially when
it's only a simple scene.
In my opinion the picture without photons is better.

Thank you Alain, you gave me the necessary kick to explore more!

Yours,
Bu.



BTW: rendering time with photons/dispersion was 3h 11' 30''
Without see above   ;-)

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