--- ray/doc/man/man1/rpict.1 2019/06/09 17:48:13 1.25 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/rpict.1 2020/05/19 16:00:58 1.26 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id: rpict.1,v 1.25 2019/06/09 17:48:13 rschregle Exp $" +.\" RCSid "$Id: rpict.1,v 1.26 2020/05/19 16:00:58 greg Exp $" .TH RPICT 1 2/26/99 RADIANCE .SH NAME rpict - generate a RADIANCE picture @@ -211,10 +211,10 @@ Set the pixel sample jitter to Distributed ray-tracing performs anti-aliasing by randomly sampling over pixels. A value of one will randomly distribute samples over full -pixels. +pixels, and is not really recommended due to the tendency of +samples to (nearly) coincide. A value of zero samples pixel centers only. -A value between zero and one is usually best -for low-resolution images. +A value around 0.5-0.8 is typical. .TP .BI -pm \ frac Set the pixel motion blur to @@ -464,8 +464,10 @@ Normally, indirect illuminance values are kept in memo lost when the program finishes or dies. By using a file, different invocations can share illuminance values, saving time in the computation. -Also, by creating an ambient file during a low resolution rendering, -better results can be obtained in a second high resolution pass. +Also, by creating an ambient file during a low-resolution rendering, +better results can be obtained in a second high-resolution pass. +(It is a good idea to keep all of the calculation parameters the same, +changing only the dimensions of the output picture.)\0 The ambient file is in a machine-independent binary format which may be examined with .I lookamb(1).