<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>well the way to test would be to do the 3600 sample render and compare the results. you can do a convert to grayscale then Boolean subtract the two images, then invert the result to see pixel differences.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I suspect the 3600 sample image will be superior. should be identical render time but require no post processing.</div><div><br></div><div>now I want to see the image in question, too! care to post it?</div>
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<br></div></div><div><br>On Nov 22, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Thomas Dinges <<a href="mailto:blender@dingto.org">blender@dingto.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
Yes, that's what Jordan suggested. :)<br>
This makes sense and also gives better results.<br>
<br>
I hope we will get a better solution though, a good merging system
would be awesome. :) <br>
<br>
Am 22.11.2011 23:11, schrieb Kel M:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Thomas
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That seems to give better results, right. Still not sure about
this.<br>
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Am 22.11.2011 22:36, schrieb Jordan Miller:<br>
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<div class="h5">> have you tried merging them weighted
("factor" setting) proportionally to the number of
samples?<br>
><br>
> jordan<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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> On Nov 22, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Thomas Dinges wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi Brecht,<br>
>> I am testing the Seed function atm in the
Integrator panel.<br>
>><br>
>> Am I right that images, rendered with different
seeds can be merged<br>
>> together?<br>
>> So for example:<br>
>> Image_1 has Seed 1 and 1000 Samples<br>
>> Image_2 has Seed 5 and 2000 Samples<br>
>><br>
>> Do I have 3000 Samples after merging them
together?<br>
>> I did that in the compositor with the Mix node,
factor 0.5 and I used<br>
>> OpenEXR renders for it.<br>
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If the second image was in the second input, shouldn't you set
the Factor to 0.66? :)<br>
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>> The combined result was better than the single
images, I have the<br>
>> impression (more noise free).<br>
>><br>
>> Then I rendered another image with 600 samples,
and combined it to the<br>
>> already combined result. Now I have the
impression though that the noise<br>
>> became more again, rather than less.<br>
>><br>
>> So do I something wrong, or is that not supposed
to work the way I use<br>
>> it? :)<br>
>><br>
>> Best regards,<br>
>> Thomas<br>
>><br>
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