[Bf-cycles] Varying number of samples per pixel

[Escot Lucas]

Hello everyone, 

I originally asked the following question on the #blendercoders IRC but
was advised to send it here. 

_Context_: I am currently working on a modified version of Cycles, in
which the user have control over how light paths behave: they are able
to transport/move rays hitting a specific surface to another one. 

Such a modification implies that during the path tracing process, SOME
PATHS/SAMPLES MUST BE DISCARDED (to do that I simply don't add their
contribution to the final image, in kernel_path.h/kernel_path_trace()). 

It means some pixels are downsampled since some of their samples might
be discarded, however Cycles still divides for each pixel the total
contribution by _the total number of samples_ which is assumed to be
constant over the entire image. 

Hence my question: is there a simple way to make this last operation
(averaging pixel samples) rely on a local number of samples, for each
pixel, rather than a constant amount of samples for the entire image? 

I hope this is the right place to ask such a question, and that some of
you will have an answer. 

Regards.

-- 
Lucas Escot
L3 Informatique Fondamentale
ENS de Lyon
Telephone: 06 88 62 63 86
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