[Bf-committers] New Patch for DISTRAY

[Arne Schmitz]

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Am Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2004 19:53 schrieb Bart:
> Saw post and pictures about distray. Looks great!
> http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3D27552
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> Read about a huge render time increase. How many times it is faster?

Increase -- not decrease. Distributed raytracing scales proportional to the=
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number of samples to the power of allowed recursion depth. With an irradian=
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cache for diffuse distributed calculations you can speed this up somewhat.=
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But for refractive and reflective sampling this is not possible, I think.

To Ray: Alexander Ewering is correct, use the rand() function. Or even bett=
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implement some quasi random number generator -- this will most probably=20
converge faster and produce less noise with the same amount of samples.

Arne

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