Well... after about a year I'm finally getting settled back down enough 
to have time again for POV-Ray. (Oh, and a new email address, since 
geocities servers are pretty much dead now)


My situation has changed a little in the past year. Finally settled into 
our house. Baby Jasmine is almost 2 now and in great health (was born 8 
weeks premature).

...And among other things, I'm now the owner of not one, but two Macs.  :-D
They're used, but still good macs.

Soo.... I've dusted off my old R-Cast stuff and am getting it up to 
speed. What with a Linux box and two Macs, I can actually give it some 
good exersize and have simple renderfarming up.

Is there still interest for such things?

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Yes there is. See www.imp.org, you can immediately start rendering if you
like! We have a nice project going on with rings and media. (see
http://24.132.254.147/872.jpg for an example frame).

The client-side stuff of the farm is completely written in perl so you'll
have no problems running. Except for the renderer because that is POV-Ray
heheheheh. I don't know about the macs, but if they're osx you'll be able to
run perl also. Windows machines can run the compiled version of the render
client.

Tom Galvin (www.imp.org) will post an official thing about this project soon
I think.

Regards,
Apache

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Apache wrote:

>Yes there is. See www.imp.org, you can immediately start rendering if you
>like! We have a nice project going on with rings and media. (see
>http://24.132.254.147/872.jpg for an example frame).
>
>The client-side stuff of the farm is completely written in perl so you'll
>have no problems running.
>
Well... there's a little more to it than that. Perl can be a bit of a 
problem on some systems. And the farm host setup might be appropriate to 
some situations more than others.


BTW, I've been quite aware of the IMP project.  :-)

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"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in news:3F077700.3020006
@geocities.com:


> And the farm host setup might be appropriate to 
> some situations more than others.
> 

Could you elaborate on this?  I don't understand what you mean by farm host 
setup.

Tom

P.S. Good to see you back.

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Tom Galvin wrote:

>"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in news:3F077700.3020006
>@geocities.com:
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>>And the farm host setup might be appropriate to 
>>some situations more than others.
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>Could you elaborate on this?  I don't understand what you mean by farm host 
>setup.
>  
>
A quick thumbnail might be client-server versus ad-hoc peer-to-peer

-- 
Jon A. Cruz

What's this? It's almost as though the fates were tempting me to...
Bad fates. Baaad... Naughty fates...

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"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in
news:3F0### [at] geocitiescom: 

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> A quick thumbnail might be client-server versus ad-hoc peer-to-peer
> 

I thought about your idea a good bit. It would not be that difficult to 
enable peer to peer in the impfarm, though I do not see the need/advantage 
for our project at this time.  However,  it might be beneficial to work out 
a standard XML dataset for handing out Pov-Ray renders.

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