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Just for kicks I rendered a "flyby" animation of the test scene - it was 380 frames long and I used the Worley Labs FPrime renderer. Each frame is saved as a TIFF, 320x240. I applied NI to each frame in a batch Action within Photoshop. I opened a frame with a good flat surface full of nois...

Yes - In all of these examples I just chose a small patch of flat noise and hit "Regular Profile" - no fine tuning or anything like that. As these are all 640x480 images, the profiling analysis took a second, if that. I'm sure with fine tuning you could get better results. let me knw if yo...

One more post on this and I will stop wasting space. This is a render using FPrime, the kick-ass aftermarket renderer for Lightwave from Worley Labs ( http://www.worley.com ). This renderer is really amazing and very fast compared to the LW render engine, but still generates noise. The below render ...

Here is the reason NI is so useful. This is a 3x9 rendering of the same scene, with one bounce, with the "Shading Noise Reduction" feature in LW turned "ON" - that is, the LW filter is applied after every one of the 5 anti-aliasing passes. Note the blotchy nature of the image and...

Here is a 4x12 image, filtered with NI. This image includes 2 bounces ad took approximately 3h30m to render.

Here is the 3x9 filtered image of the entire test scene:

Here are some sample renderings using a simple scene with a HDR image - the ubiquitous "Uffizi" light probe image from http://www.debevec.org/Probes/ . The scene contains a diffuse cube (matte), a glossy toroid (shiny plastic) and a specular reflective sphere (chrome) with a slightly refle...

As far as rendering time, it depends on a number of factors. Even if you let the renderer chug for hours, you still can end up with artifact. Lightwave has a "shading noise" check box that you can select to help reduce the noise associated with global illumination techniques. It is applied...

Anyone who has used global illumination methods in 3D model rendering has experienced the Monte Carlo stochastic effects of concentrated light sources and the noise that this method generates in the subsequent rendering. NI does a nice job of toning down this noise and handling it effectively, makin...

As we are talking wishlist here, it would be cool if the FFT/IFFT window had a live preview window and a filter mask window, in addition to whatever slider and doo-dad type controls. The filter mask window could have a background layer of the actual FFT and the user could "paint" using typ...

Is there any plan to include some sort of FFT/IFFT capabilities within NI to extend its range beyond noise supression and into the realm of regular pattern suppression? This is NOT just a simple extension of NI (I would think) but it seems like a natural progression based on some of the examples of ...

While NI can do a lot, it does it on noise. Regular (periodic) patterns are often better addressed with a more appropriate technique like Fast Fourier Transform filtering. See: http://kirkt.smugmug.com/gallery/988997 for a detailed example using the original image. http://kirkt.smugmug.com/photos/45...

Also, and most of the time underappreciated, a very thorough and well written User Guide that is thoughtfully provided as a single, printable PDF and not a loose coolection of linked HTML. Thanks again.

kirk

Kirk, Thank you very much for your kind words. We do keep working on Neat Image. In particular, the Mac version still needs a few more features to be implemented and we are working on this. I hope the next updates of the plug-in will be even more useful for you. Kind regards, Vlad You're welcome. A...