In article <qqm### [at] goldachfmiuni-konstanzde> , Thomas Willhalm
<Tho### [at] uni-konstanzde>  wrote:
>Last weekend, I had the opportunity to render an animation on the world
>largest Linux cluster. Up to 432 Pentium class machines were working on 
>my POV-Ray scenes. That was fun!

Aha, so you were there.  Has the speed record and the entry in the Top 500
Supercomputer list been confirmed?


    Thorsten


PS: I watched it via WDR Computerclub via RealVideo - the only way to watch German
television here in the USA.


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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: Tho### [at] csicom

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Although you could render at 600 PPI (pixels per inch) for printing to a 600 DPI
(dots per inch) printer, you don't need to render more than 300 PPI.  If
anything, the 300 PPI image will look better that the 600 PPI image when printed
to a 600 DPI color device.  Plus the 300 PPI image will not take nearly as much
time to render!  : )

Try rendering at 2475 x 3507 and compare the printed output to the 4960 x 7015
image.

By the way - the largest image I have ever rendered was 7200x7200 (150 megs) for
a fine art print on canvas.  The final IRIS print was 36 x 36 inches.  I only
used 200 pixels per inch.  It looked great with no artifacting.

Marc Schimmler wrote:

> Nieminen Mika wrote:
> >
>
> >
> >   A friend of mine once rendered one of my images for printing on a 600DPI
> > color laser full-sized A4 sheet. I don't remember the resolution (can
> > anyone calculate it?) but it sure was HUGE!
>
> It should be about 4960 x 7015
>
> Marc
>
> --
> Marc Schimmler

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> PS: I watched it via WDR Computerclub via RealVideo - the only way to watch German
> television here in the USA.
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> Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
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Wo denn nu' ???

Markus

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"Thorsten Froehlich" <fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> writes:

> In article <qqm### [at] goldachfmiuni-konstanzde> , Thomas Willhalm
> <Tho### [at] uni-konstanzde>  wrote:
> >Last weekend, I had the opportunity to render an animation on the world
> >largest Linux cluster. Up to 432 Pentium class machines were working on 
> >my POV-Ray scenes. That was fun!
> 
> Aha, so you were there.  Has the speed record and the entry in the Top 500
> Supercomputer list been confirmed?

As far as I know: not yet.

Thomas

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