[chaoscope] Re: Bug/Request
- From: "Alan Tennant" <alan2here@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:28:21 +0000
Actually it will double that +1 presuming you can't have 0 iterations.
2009/1/18 Alan Tennant <alan2here@xxxxxxxxx>
> Or by using a 16 byte (128 bit) unsigned integer value to store the max
> iterations. Giving an iteration cap of:
>
> 340282367000000000000000000000000000000
>
>
> 2009/1/18 Kay Dekker <kaydekker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >
> > > I was rendering a solid object, and it was still grainy in some areas
> at 4000000000 iterations,
> > > so i bumped up the number to 8000000000 and the number of iterations
> seems to be capped at 4294967295
> > > it will not go above this value... and at this current value my image
> is noticably grainy like there is a whole > section that has not been done,
> and it is kinda bugging me, and i was wondering if the number could be
> > > increased...
> >
> > For the moment yes, there is a maximum number of iterations, and no,
> there is currently no way around that. There was some discussion about this
> limitation on the list a year or so ago, and various ideas were floated,
> such as running a render for a user-settable time, or running until
> interrupted.
> >
> > It is, I'm sure, one of the things that Nicolas is thinking hard about
> for future releases!
> >
> > Kay
>
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