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  Re: Motecarlo path tracing with MegaPov 1.2.1  
From: fidos
Date: 21 Feb 2008 14:10:01
Message: <web.47bdcb83dcec6a9fde310acb0@news.povray.org>
> No surprise at all. Path tracing works very well with large light sources. And
> the largest one possible is usually sky. Most rays terminate very quickly and
> the image converges very fast.
I agree with the theory. But the patio (a previuos screne that I posted in this
thread) was rendered with the same lighting (a portal around a point light and
a sky dome) and the rendering was far slower.

Regards,
Fidos


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