Mark Stock's work on rendering large models w/o ambient cache

Lars,

I don't have enough experience to comment on the usefulness of your proposed method, I can only say that I used the method on single large images (I'm up to 36,000x36,000 now). My main goal was to prevent any caching of ambient points due to memory limits.

Mark

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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Lars Grobe wrote:

Hi,

Mark did some work on how to get nice results without ambient cache (afaik he uses -aa .00 -d 6 -ps 1 and downsamples /4 in pfilt). I tried the same on a very large model, but rendering is slow now because the different views can't share ambient data. So my suggestion is to keep low -ad and downsample as proposed, but cache the fewer ambient values in an ambient file using a moderate -aa. Any comments? I wondered why this was not mentioned in the studies, am I completely wrong or is it because he simply did not have to reuse the ambient values (in a comparision with different ambient settings, that would be a bad idea ;-)?

TIA+CU Lars.

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