<div dir="ltr"><div>I've also been using square samples in all my scenes for years now... meaningful differences in sampling quality line up pretty well to squared sample counts. If anything it should be the default behavior, not removed!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>- Colby</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Gottfried Hofmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gottfried@blenderdiplom.com" target="_blank">gottfried@blenderdiplom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello List,<br>
<br>
one question regarding squared samples: It seems to me that squaring the<br>
samples is a convention among pathtracing engines. At least Arnold is<br>
also using squared samples.<br>
<br>
Does anybody here have experience with other engines like octane? Do<br>
they square the samples as well?<br>
<br>
The reason for squaring: To get half the noise you need to quadruple the<br>
samples (because a pixel has two dimensions).<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Gottfried<br>
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On 15.08.2017 20:06, Thomas Dinges wrote:<br>
> Right, we added the ability to square samples later on, as an option. If<br>
> you already square samples and do that by default, you can keep that for<br>
> Cycles4D. The change in the code is merely on the Blender UI part and<br>
> Blender -> Cycles exporter. No changes in the kernel. :)<br>
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