Re: transparent samples

Hi Gunter,

Hopefully someone with more rendering expertise than me can give
better advice than this, but:

It sounds like the grid pattern could be the difference between
summing sample RGBA values together, and compositing them from front
to back using the 'over' operator, which is how deep pixels are
supposed to be interpreted (see the "Interpreting Deep Pixels" doc)

If you are rendering a solid 'thin' objects, you should really only
be outputting one sample per object into each pixel, regardless of
how many samples the renderer uses to generate the pixel data.
That's all that compositing operations such as merging and colour
correction will require - don't make the files larger and slower
than they need to be!

I suspect you'll have to combine your render-samples together into
more sparse deep-samples.

When you are storing multiple samples due to having multiple objects
at different depths within the same pixel, the value of each sample
will have to account for the ones in front of it. This discussion on
Nuke-dev is perhaps relevant:

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01495.html

Another example:

Suppose you have 8 samples per pixel, 2 corresponding to a
foreground object, and 5 to a background object.

The deep sample for the foreground object should be 2/8, since 2/8
of the samples are on the foreground object.

There are 6 samples remaining, of which 5 correspond to the
background object, so you output 5/6 for the background object. If
you output flat RGBA, you would output an alpha 7/8, since 7 of the
8 samples correspond to objects. When nuke/exrdisplay composite,
they'll over the alpha values together:

output = 2/8 over 5/6

output = 2/8 + (1-2/8)*5/6

=7/8

which corresponds to the flat RGBA image.

Remember that RGB is premultiplied, so that will need processing for
each sample in a similar way.

On 16/07/14 02:10, Gunter Sprenger
wrote:

Please advice on the correct method to put
multiple transparency samples into a pixel in deep-exr. At
tile borders

of a rendered image occasionally there are
multiple samples at the same depth with the same rgba color.

Both exrdisplay and nuke show a slightly
darker (i.e. less transparent) grid pattern because of the
multiple samples

at tile borders.

This could also happen in adaptive
sampling, here it would look much worse I guess (i.e. having
different numbers

of transparency samples in the pixels).

The samples have fractional coordinate
values, they are rounded to integral values for deep-exr.

Thanks

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