"Plastic Chicken" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> So is distributing the render in such a way within the rules?

FWIW, I would say "yes". The final image would be the same which ever way
was used to generate it. As long as you only used Photoshop to stitch the
pieces together and not change the actual pixels in any way there would be
no difference between the distributed render and a single machine render.

You may also want to look at PVM POV. This patch can distribute a render
across several machines, effectively doing what you want to do but without
the need to manually compile the image. This is a valid patch by the
POVCOMP rules as the source is available (http://pvmpov.sourceforge.net/),
though this may require some work to get it running on Macs.

Cheers,
Ian.