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  Re: Building a fast PC...  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 28 Mar 2004 06:37:39
Message: <4066b903$1@news.povray.org>
Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
>>Running POV-Ray on a multiprocessor system would be the same as running
>>on several independent machines - you would start several render
>>processes for using all available processors.
> 
> And hope your not using radioasity....
> 

No, you just have to understand how radiosity works to be able to 
distribute the render efficiently.

A good example for this being a usable technique for radiosity renders 
as well is:

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/povray/night/

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/


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