ravenous opened this issue on Oct 17, 2008 · 7 posts
ravenous posted Fri, 17 October 2008 at 7:54 AM
Thank you for the input MarkBremmer! Excellent explanation with the table and objects around it. Now, this leads me to further questions.
How does the scene scale fit into the equation? The way I see it, a coffee cup would have the same occlusion in any kind of scene.
What if I have a scene with a coffe cup next to a tree? The cup would have 1/2 inch shadow while the tree have a longer, let's say 5 ft shadow. Just to wrap my head around it, what occlusion distance would you set?
Correct me if I'm wrong but the way you explain it, it sounds like the most realistic ambient occlusion would occur at infinite distance? This is just a hypothetical question since an infinite distance would take infinite time to calculate.