[Radiance-general] BSDF xml into Radiance

Lars O. Grobe grobe at gmx.net
Mon Jul 30 11:17:40 PDT 2012


Hi Greg,

thank you for the quick reply!

>> What is the actual advantage of using -c 4 instead of doubling x-
>> and y-resolution?
> 
> Yes, I think so.  The main advantage of increasing -c as opposed to
> -x and -y is efficiency -- the output picture files are smaller, so
> you don't have as much disk i/o (which can be a bottleneck) and don't
> have to filter the results, either.

That was what I expected, but for whatever reasons, I experienced a
slowdown when setting -x and -y to 1/2 and doubling -c. Did you observe
an improvement in rendering times?

Cheers, Lars.



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