[Bf-cycles] Question about Seed

[Thomas Dinges]

That seems to give better results, right. Still not sure about this.

Am 22.11.2011 22:36, schrieb Jordan Miller:
> have you tried merging them weighted ("factor" setting) proportionally to the number of samples?
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> On Nov 22, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Thomas Dinges wrote:
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>> Hi Brecht,
>> I am testing the Seed function atm in the Integrator panel.
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>> Am I right that images, rendered with different seeds can be merged
>> together?
>> So for example:
>> Image_1 has Seed 1 and 1000 Samples
>> Image_2 has Seed 5 and 2000 Samples
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>> Do I have 3000 Samples after merging them together?
>> I did that in the compositor with the Mix node, factor 0.5 and I used
>> OpenEXR renders for it.
>> The combined result was better than the single images, I have the
>> impression (more noise free).
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>> Then I rendered another image with 600 samples, and combined it to the
>> already combined result. Now I have the impression though that the noise
>> became more again, rather than less.
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>> So do I something wrong, or is that not supposed to work the way I use
>> it? :)
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>> Best regards,
>> Thomas
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