Erle Greer wrote:

> Does anyone know if the POV development team has considered adding parallel
> / distributed network rendering?

<snip>

I think PVM-POV meets these criteria, though it's only for the UNIX (AFAIK) and
is five kinds of hell to install.

E.

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"Erle Greer" <greere_Spam_Me_Not_@evangel.edu> wrote:

>Does anyone know if the POV development team has considered adding parallel

Yes. I can't say if it'll be this century though. I hope to have a demo testbed
based around 3.1x later this year but I can't promise anything.

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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:00:54 GMT, newsadmin@[remove]povray.org
(POV-Ray Newsadmin) wrote:

>"Erle Greer" <greere_Spam_Me_Not_@evangel.edu> wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know if the POV development team has considered adding parallel
>
>Yes. I can't say if it'll be this century though. I hope to have a demo testbed
>based around 3.1x later this year but I can't promise anything.

< wipes saliva from lip, trying not to appear too anxious, hits
refresh awaiting beta test notice... sigh... refresh... nope...
refresh >

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On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:19:51 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
[snip]
> I just added that link to my bookmark file less that a week ago too and
>found it strictly by accident. I wish people would advertise these nifty
>little add ons so I don't have to luck into them.
>
>-- 
Ah, but then you wouldn't be held in as much awe if *anyone* could
find the links because they're posted in front of our eyes.

Maybe you could do a tutorial page - "How to find the impossible" and
slap it up on the web?

Cheers,

Cliff Bowman
Why not pay my 3D Dr Who site a visit at http://www.who3d.cwc.net/

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Cliff Bowman wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:19:51 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> [snip]
> > I just added that link to my bookmark file less that a week ago too and
> >found it strictly by accident. I wish people would advertise these nifty
> >little add ons so I don't have to luck into them.
> >
> >--
> Ah, but then you wouldn't be held in as much awe if *anyone* could
> find the links because they're posted in front of our eyes.
> 
> Maybe you could do a tutorial page - "How to find the impossible" and
> slap it up on the web?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff Bowman
> Why not pay my 3D Dr Who site a visit at http://www.who3d.cwc.net/

How to find the impossible ? Just go to my links page sheeesh !

-- 
Ken Tyler

See my 700+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html

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Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote:

> Another issue is that the radiosity code has to be modified in
> order to be able to be calculated in parts.

Why is it not posible to render a picture with radiosity in parts? Does 
this mean +SRn and +ERn must not be used with radiosity scenes? I 
couldn't find any hint in the documentation.

Regards
Sven

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In article <Xns### [at] sirius666de> , Sven Heinzel
<Sir### [at] gmxnet>  wrote:

> Why is it not posible to render a picture with radiosity in parts? Does
> this mean +SRn and +ERn must not be used with radiosity scenes? I
> couldn't find any hint in the documentation.

Well, you can of course use them, but when assembling the picture it will
not look like you expect (it will not be identical to a whole render of the
same scene).  It has to do with the way the method called radiosity in
POV-Ray works.  It is a fundamental property of the method and cannot easily
be changed, just take Warps (and my) word for it.

    Thorsten

____________________________________________________
Thorsten Froehlich
e-mail: mac### [at] povrayorg

I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org

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Using pretrace_start 1 and pretrace_end 1 should do the trick though...

--
Jonathan.
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:3bfd49a5$1@news.povray.org...
> In article <Xns### [at] sirius666de> , Sven Heinzel
> <Sir### [at] gmxnet>  wrote:
>
> > Why is it not posible to render a picture with radiosity in parts? Does
> > this mean +SRn and +ERn must not be used with radiosity scenes? I
> > couldn't find any hint in the documentation.
>
> Well, you can of course use them, but when assembling the picture it will
> not look like you expect (it will not be identical to a whole render of
the
> same scene).  It has to do with the way the method called radiosity in
> POV-Ray works.  It is a fundamental property of the method and cannot
easily
> be changed, just take Warps (and my) word for it.
>
>     Thorsten
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich
> e-mail: mac### [at] povrayorg
>
> I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
> Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org

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JRG wrote:
> 
> Using pretrace_start 1 and pretrace_end 1 should do the trick though...
> 

But this can be much slower and can lead to worse results in some
situations.  As a rule of thumb you can say it works quite well with low
error_bound, but it depends on the situation.

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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Slower?

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Jonathan.
"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> ha scritto nel messaggio
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>
>
> JRG wrote:
> >
> > Using pretrace_start 1 and pretrace_end 1 should do the trick though...
> >
>
> But this can be much slower and can lead to worse results in some
> situations.  As a rule of thumb you can say it works quite well with low
> error_bound, but it depends on the situation.
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
> IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other
> things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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