clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 23.07.2013 04:05, schrieb Cousin Ricky:
>
> > In my experience, method 2 works better for most scenes, but method 1
> > (non-adaptive) wins hands down for checkered planes.  I have achieved results
> > similar to your 2nd and 3rd images using method 1 with jitter (+AM1 +J).  What
> > is the advantage of your new method over method 1?  Is it adaptive like method
> > 2?
>
> Yes, indeed; it uses an approach similar to the oversampling implemented
> in focal blur (but takes neighboring pixels into account to do its
> adaptive thing).
>
> Method 1 with jitter does indeed do a comparatively good job; but its
> quality settings don't always scale well, as the attached image
> demonstrates - this was rendered with +am1 and extremely high-quality
> settings (+a0.01 +r9). Fun fact: With a lower numbr of samples, the
> artifacts in the distance didn't show.
>
> More importantly however, in the branch I'm working on the new
> anti-aliasing mode will serve as a key component to speed up renders
> that combine multiple features that rely on some kind of oversampling,
> like focal blur, area lights, media, SSLT and (coming later) blurred
> reflections.

Why a branch instead of a predefined version number that would wait this feature
to get counted, like 3.7.5?

Is this because you feel it has too many drawbacks to make it to trunk ever?
what kind of licence would this branch use?

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