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Successful Hugeness and Render Realizations
12 years ago
First off: my experiments with rendering at 4k resolution were successful and the results look totally awesome. I also learned some new, interesting things...
Mostly that I'd been rendering badly for years. The "oversample" value apophysis is something I normally jack all the way up because I thought "Oh! This uses more RAM as I increase it, that must mean a higher quality render is occurring!" Weeelllll...turns out that's true for small renders, and with large renders, I should be turning down the OS rate from...a lot (usually I crank it to the max: 16), to much lower: 2-4. This means I don't need the bajillions of gigs of RAM that I thought I did...so larger than 4k resolution renders may be a possibility. More experimentation is necessary.
This also means I can very likely start rendering more print-ready images, and hopefully print-ready images for formats larger than 8x10. If I can find a place that'll do high-quality prints for reasonable prices, this means I might start selling fractal prints.
Mostly that I'd been rendering badly for years. The "oversample" value apophysis is something I normally jack all the way up because I thought "Oh! This uses more RAM as I increase it, that must mean a higher quality render is occurring!" Weeelllll...turns out that's true for small renders, and with large renders, I should be turning down the OS rate from...a lot (usually I crank it to the max: 16), to much lower: 2-4. This means I don't need the bajillions of gigs of RAM that I thought I did...so larger than 4k resolution renders may be a possibility. More experimentation is necessary.
This also means I can very likely start rendering more print-ready images, and hopefully print-ready images for formats larger than 8x10. If I can find a place that'll do high-quality prints for reasonable prices, this means I might start selling fractal prints.
