Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> For what it is worth, I generally use the following radiosity settings,
> to full satisfaction:
>
>      pretrace_start     0.08
>      pretrace_end       0.004
>        count            100, 1000
>        nearest_count    10, 5
>        error_bound      1
>        recursion_limit  2
>        low_error_factor 0.3
>        gray_threshold   0.0
>        minimum_reuse    0.015
>        maximum_reuse    0.1
>        brightness       1
>
>        adc_bailout      0.01/2
>        normal           on
>        media            off
>        always_sample    off
>
> This is quite fast and I experience little or no artefacts. Note the
> dual (optional) parameters used for count and nearest_count. This can
> increase the quality of your render without slowing it down much. See
> the following page of the wiki:
> https://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Radiosity#count
>
> You may also want to try stochastic rendering with, e.g., +am3 +a0.01
> +ac0.90 +r3. If you do that, change count to 10 all other radiosity
> settings remaining the same.
>
> --
> Thomas

Thanks, I tried these out and they seem to have worked pretty well.

-- Chris R.

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