[Bf-cycles] Question about Seed

[Thomas Dinges]

Yes, that's what Jordan suggested. :)
This makes sense and also gives better results.

I hope we will get a better solution though, a good merging system would 
be awesome. :)

Am 22.11.2011 23:11, schrieb Kel M:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org 
> <mailto: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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