[Pharr 2004] describes the optimal grid size in his Physically Based Raytracer to be a scalar times the cube root of the number of polys in the scene.
Specifically, [Pharr 2004] describes the optimal grid size as:
where N is the number of polygonal faces present in the imported Mesh objects.
[Pharr 2004] says that a good place to "start testing" grid size is the cube root of N, which is what I had been using for my optimal grid size.
After some experimentation, I found that Pharr's suggested scalar multiplication factor of 3 made another large effect on my render time.
| Accumulated Optimization Status |
Runtime |
| Initial Voxel Traversal with voxel size "guess" 12x12x12s |
2752 seconds. (~46 minutes) |
| Voxel-Polygon Sub-Mesh Optimization |
143 seconds (~2 and a half minutes) |
| Shadow Ray Voxel Optimization |
35 seconds |
| Optimal Grid Size Calculation |
24 seconds |
I now have another image to show the optimizations up to this point.
| Accumulated Optimization Status |
Runtime |
| Initial Voxel Traversal with voxel size "guess" 2x2x2s |
19295 seconds. (~5.4 hours) |
| Voxel-Polygon Sub-Mesh Optimization |
not calculated (sorry) |
| Shadow Ray Voxel Optimization |
not calculated (sorry) |
| Optimal Grid Size Calculation |
1044 seconds. (~17 minutes) |
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