POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Large renders : Re: Large renders Server Time
8 Aug 2024 04:06:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Large renders  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 9 Mar 2001 04:22:25
Message: <3aa8a0d1$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3aa7400a@news.povray.org...
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> : The relative gain approaches zero with long parse times and shorter
> : render times.
>
>   And this only if only one computer makes the parsing.
>   If you distribute the rendering to several computers "by brute force",
that
> is, by just starting povray in several computers and render parts of the
> image (as I do in my script), then each computer has to parse the scene.
>

Yes, but as long as each pc is parsing the scene at the same time, the parse
time doesn't get any longer, the render time just gets shorter.


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