SuperSonic

[xenodreambuie]

Stardust4ever, that's one of the reasons I mentioned the possibility of irregular sampling as an advantage of built in supersampling. It's most useful for highly correlated patterns such as texturing, not nearly as much for typical Julia or Mandelbrot fractal boundaries.
Jux does use irregular sampling, but not randomized. Reducing correlation was one reason, but not the main one. I figured that rather than weighting samples with a typical envelope, I could use equal weights and have more samples nearer the center. It also fit better with my adaptive sampling method.

[stardust4ever]

Some fractal areas do have higher moire artifacting than others. One example is a typical textbook zoom into the utter west with classic coloring algorithm (bailout = 2, solid bands). You get rays like sunshine emenating from the minibrot and at deper levels the straight alternating lines can develop high moire patterns when they get close together.

But yeas, most of the time, as with spirals, there isn't a huge correlation between iteration bands and pixel spacing. I just illustraited a point that by dividing each pixel into squares and randomizing the position oof each ray within those squares, can often dissolve any existing moire patterns within the render. In some cases this technique can increase the noise floor slightly while simultaneously eliminating moire patterns.

Overall it is a better strategy for CGI, and obviously the chessboard floor is an example of worst case senario, as is for instance an utter west minibrot found in the needle.

[hapf]

Here is a location full of aliasing/moiré if someone wants to compare pre-blurring, random sampling etc.:
-1.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999964167859181481345304304588435620123924712119404059472773663805166711618956194838719021305389817240974903756614325041160459611662529365729385477093320702251209652829250829074940430728561432521051533584903938105170934081265592965605107688074973344719120419087715612046156524154644929702743341067174021056910317166589961218248362834949985270221280861548508395310334265921266581204679762344022201818885889867610620291231229022045666418693877777391264452722884510347414158873279576785099945683580403782743643104542152419918540813636043912330163841997917973325798404572075914481612699848039954264440595014192571321738904445996203786169930590801361474273553935130353066785498224246333944685895946870176882796651097186228949653941076075485441461103924579943074972981437962770006625765561856033607214522789938762970286156848721078931644371182974084380216600975305547447659897856166223043566284290858157706280339989734686722402220241439675239592062243609300094148978658996262967206023433742596520505346569875598295276288495756263419388622771768891979873193484627822919147573239686269089637976355644888974656138132658727701587547968611026807208268286565747798745776245935950691344651196405469801258583280873101185756290562580827749669979154174025231381583264353302320086682984758314496737546924918059686608834116362559360550433978782522508996848941145361387302148531011E+00
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3.0E-1469

[stardust4ever]

Here is a location full of aliasing/moiré if someone wants to compare pre-blurring, random sampling etc.:
-1.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999964167859181481345304304588435620123924712119404059472773663805166711618956194838719021305389817240974903756614325041160459611662529365729385477093320702251209652829250829074940430728561432521051533584903938105170934081265592965605107688074973344719120419087715612046156524154644929702743341067174021056910317166589961218248362834949985270221280861548508395310334265921266581204679762344022201818885889867610620291231229022045666418693877777391264452722884510347414158873279576785099945683580403782743643104542152419918540813636043912330163841997917973325798404572075914481612699848039954264440595014192571321738904445996203786169930590801361474273553935130353066785498224246333944685895946870176882796651097186228949653941076075485441461103924579943074972981437962770006625765561856033607214522789938762970286156848721078931644371182974084380216600975305547447659897856166223043566284290858157706280339989734686722402220241439675239592062243609300094148978658996262967206023433742596520505346569875598295276288495756263419388622771768891979873193484627822919147573239686269089637976355644888974656138132658727701587547968611026807208268286565747798745776245935950691344651196405469801258583280873101185756290562580827749669979154174025231381583264353302320086682984758314496737546924918059686608834116362559360550433978782522508996848941145361387302148531011E+00
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3.0E-1469

Utter west, aye?

Would you mind expressing those coordinates without scientific notation, ie 0.000000000.....

I had to add 241 zeros after the decimal. Mandel Machine can't read inputs in scientific notation with the "E" on the end.

EDIT: Here's some fixed coordinates:

Code:

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Zoom= 2^-4878

Playing with the color cycling a bit, I'm getting star shaped moire patterns throughout the image. Circles and rays are especially susceptible to alias patterns.

[hapf]

Playing with the color cycling a bit, I'm getting star shaped moire patterns throughout the image. Circles and rays are especially susceptible to alias patterns.

My God! It's full of stars!
 
It's also a region that is tough for the Newton algorithm.

[stardust4ever]

My God! It's full of stars!
 
It's also a region that is tough for the Newton algorithm.

Kinda like my reverse "Turbo Zoom" video.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/mx_UXxtW3sg&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/mx_UXxtW3sg&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

An otherwise boring textbook zoom into the utter west such that the bailout increases by exactly 228 each period, also the number of colors in the FX color pallet. When a bailout of exactly 2 is used, the bars formed by the color bands are solid black. I had to turn off pixel guessing when rendering this movie because the moire patterns created holes between the rays. I ran the movie backwards because the viewer would fall asleep watching the first half otherwise.

[Kalles Fraktaler]

Would you mind expressing those coordinates without scientific notation, ie 0.000000000.....

KF can...

[stardust4ever]

KF can...

Hehe, I manually added the zeros in notepad, just a pain to group them in tens to make sure I counted correctly. I like to jump back and forth between Mandel Machine and Kalles Fraktaler. Both are extremely useful software. Mandel Machine is faster for extremely deep pure Mandelbrot rendering, but KF have more bells and whistles and can handle a whole slew of new formulas!

Sadly it seems Botond is no longer maintaining MM. He hasn't logged in months it appears. I sent him a PM about a location I found was not solving all glitches, but I seemed to discover a solution on my own. Changing the references on Series Approximation from 17 down to 5 fixed the issue I was having with "holes" in the image, but took about 4 times longer. It was worth the tradeoff.