On an only slightly less far fetched note:

I was looking at new computer parts for what I hope will be a new computer
by X-mas.  I realized that I ArsTechnics's recomdation for a budget
motherboard, the Asus A7N266-VM,  has built in nic and video for ~$75
assuming this nic could be convenced to remote boot, $150 worth of processor
and $300 worth of ram give a perfectly good render "box" for under $500.
With the distributed computing patch I've read about, and some left over
cases (we all have lots of left over cases right?) one could create a
POV-Ray rendering farm for less then the cost of a compact car.

JFMILLER


"Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <raf### [at] raf256com> wrote in message
news:Xns### [at] 204213191226...
> "Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote in
> news:3d9effab$1@news.povray.org
>
> > Has anybody ever tried compiling POV to run on, say, a Cray or
> > other really high-end supercomputer?  If so, how complex of a
> > scene could be rendered in a space of 24 hours, or a week, or
> > similar times used for complex scenes on PCs?
>
> btw - my dream (impossible now, hmm well maybe Bill G can affort it;) - to
> have cluster of i.e 1024 x 100 Pentiums 2 GHz 2 GB ram connected with very
> fast ethernet, so each will rander just ~7 pixels per frame. Then it would
> be possible to play Quake 3 with real soft shadows, real glass, radiosity,
> media :))) maybe even a focal blur - in real time :)
>
> --
> #macro
g(U,V)(.4*abs(sin(9*sqrt(pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))))*pow(1-min(1,(sqrt(
> pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))*.3)),2)+.9)#end#macro p(c)#if(c>1)#local
l=mod(c,100
> );g(2*div(l,10)-8,2*mod(l,10)-8)*p(div(c,100))#else 1#end#end
light_source{
> y 2}sphere{z*20
9pigment{function{p(26252423)*p(36455644)*p(66656463)}}}//M

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