In article <01bde7f5$169f8a00$cfc322c3@desktop>,
"Alan McFarlane" <amc### [at] bigfootcom> wrote:
>Anyone got any idea as to how to write some code to allow pov to render
>across two machines using a serial link?

If you're using UNIX/Linux, you have several freewaver pearl scripts
wich will do so. One machine is servers, others are clients, it works
over TCP/IP, and, it's kinda cool.

But, regarding the OS you're using, you can always separate the job among
several machines. If you're rendering a 300 frames animation, you could
set POV, for instance, like this:

Your home PC, some P133 or something could render like 50 frames.
PII-400 At work could render 100 frames.
And some Sun UltraSPARC could render like 150 frames.

Or, if you're rendering single scene, you could say your home PC to render
first 100 lines (out of 800), that PII could do like 250 lines, and
that Sun could do the rest.

Look in the documentation for +SE and +EF switches, and browse trough
the animation switches section.

        Mike

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