Theo Gottwald * wrote:
> I doubt most people want to sent their scene-files through the net for
> getting them rendered piece by piece.

it can be done in such a way that the person donating the cpu time sees the
rendering image however all source code is inaccessable....

> However, I believe that next generation computers can render nearly
> anything as fast as necessary.

I have been poving for years, my renders took all night on a 486sx25, and
they still take all night on my p3-650 - in fact the last few have taken
DAYS (one of the reasons I have not poved in a while)

> However, rendertime-sharing could be an option for an future release.

I say start with it as main feature, that way the implamentation will be
ideal and not some tagged on after thaught - something like this would drive
povray well beyond the realm of all current 3d render engines.

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