I'm thinking about using POVray on a mosix or openmosix linux cluster.
I need to do just still images for architectural visualization and i fell in
love with POVray 3.5.
I am considering the possibility to start several POV processes, each
rendering a set of rows of the same pov file. Processes are intended to
migrate on the nodes of the cluster.
I'd like to implement the whole thing through a script in order to split the
work into rows and start the appropriate POV processes. The same script, or
another one, should collect the rendered images and stick them togheter to
obtain the final whole.
As i am quite a newbie both at pov and at linux programming, i have several
questions i hope someone can kindly help me to answer:
1) Will i be able to start several pov processes at the same time? should i
set up different INI files?
2) Will processes really migrate ?
3) Can there be problems using radiosity as the ones shown in PVMpov (which
i had considered to use, but it's not arrived at version 3.5 yet)?
4) as anyone (as i suspect) already written such sort of scripts? if yes, is
he/she willing to share the scripts (asking too much? uhu?)?
5) is it possible to stick togheter automagically the partial images? which
kind of file is it better to have as image file? which kind of problems may
i encounter?

Thank you in advance for any possible kind help.
francesco

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