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Ricardo has some projects "on hold", which really sound promissing.
About them is a distributed rendering utility, in functionality and
limitations similar to SMPOV, but in C (portable) which is also capable of
direct TCP/IP Connections.
I don't know the actual state but so far he told me, it should be "ready to
render" but not ready to be released.
Programmers, take a look: Mail directly to Riccard: rol### [at] tiscalinet it
As I understood what he wrote me, he started developement and things
happened that he cannot end things himself for time reasons.
If anyone ever had the idea of making something around this projects, don't
re-invent the wheel yourself, take a look at what riccardo did maybe we'll
soon see new intresting contributions to the POV-Community.
--Theo
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In <40dbe24a$1@news.povray.org> Theo Gottwald *** wrote:
> Ricardo has some projects "on hold", which really sound promissing.
one of them is a DXF to POVRAY converter, which works but has bugs in
the smoothing code that I cannot pinpoint (to allow smoothing of
polygons). Smoothing can be disabled and then it works fine.
This project is command-line I am in the process of making a GUI for
MacOS and Linux/*BSD. Other platforms may follow later.
This project is "on hold" only because I wasn't capable to find the
smoothing bug alone.
> About them is a distributed rendering utility, in functionality and
> limitations similar to SMPOV, but in C (portable) which is also
> capable of direct TCP/IP Connections. I don't know the actual state
> but so far he told me, it should be "ready to render" but not ready
> to be released.
It has successfully rendered several scenes. It can render in a LAN but
also over the internet. It can try to load-balance if the computer have
different speeds. At the moment it has only a command-line interface
which is quite "unfriendly" that should be finished and maybe a simple
gui would be good too..
The good thing is that being a research-project there is actually some
documentation for other people to read :)
> If anyone ever had the idea of making something around this projects,
> don't re-invent the wheel yourself, take a look at what riccardo did
> maybe we'll soon see new intresting contributions to the POV-
> Community.
If interests arises and other users join and help to develop, I would
contribute myself again.
The Star-POV project was a research about distributed computing, so once
it worked I had no more reasons to allocate time for it (unfortunately....)
So don't be afraid to ask me some questions.
Take care,
Riccardo
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