[Bf-cycles] Question about Seed

[Kel M]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > jordan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 22, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Thomas Dinges wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Brecht,
> >> I am testing the Seed function atm in the Integrator panel.
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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.
>

If the second image was in the second input, shouldn't you set the Factor
to 0.66? :)


> >> The combined result was better than the single images, I have the
> >> impression (more noise free).
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> So do I something wrong, or is that not supposed to work the way I use
> >> it? :)
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Thomas
> >>
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