"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message news:3DD3B553.C37419D9@pacbell.net...
> How can a second instance of POV-Ray possibly know exactly which frames had
> been rendered by the first instance. Backward frame rendering on the second
> instance would make no difference as neither instance knows what the other is
> doing and couldn't possibly know when to stop in the theoretical middle.
> So, as Thorsten already mentioned, it won't matter if you start the second
> instance from the middle or the end becasue the two instances have no way
> to track and communicate what the other instance has completed. The program
> would have to be modified to allow this idea to work and no matter what
> you do you will never acheive a perfect load balance with each machine
> stopping at exactly the same time.

The user would cancel one or both instances when he/she sees that the 'middle' point
has
passed, and there are no more frames to be rendered. If the 'middle' point is passed
and the
user is not at the pc, then some frames are duplicated on each computer. These can
easily be
deleted.

Andy Cocker

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