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- 3Delight is slower to generate these samples. For draft renders (high variance), Arnold is fastest. For final renders (low variance) 3Delight becomes increasingly faster with increasing samples.
- Both Arnold and RenderMan/RIS produce biased images at low sample counts. More specifically: images are darker. 3Delight manages to keep the same energy overall independently of sample counts.
- Arnold, 3Delight and RenderMan/RIS rely on acceleration data structures to sample the geometric area lights. In Arnold and RenderMan, the algorithmic complexity to build those data structures is tied – linearly, as the graph shows – to the number of samples (as well as the complexity of the light). In 3Delight, only to the complexity of the light matters (time to first pixel for 3Delight was 2-3 seconds no matter how many samples there are).
Resources
| RenderMan/RIS | Arnold | 3Delight | |
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| Images and Stats | |||
| Maya Scene | |||
| Remarks | The same scene works with both | ||
| 3Delight and Arnold |