Patrick Elliott <sha### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> In article <40625573$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> > Patrick Elliott wrote:
> > If you're complaining that it's not already available for free, then it
> > doesn't sound like you're involved in professional print work at all. :-)
> >
> No I am not. But if I did get into it, I would prefer a cheap and usable
> solution, not weeks spent trying to get something done that will work.
> Yes, you can do all this now, but it requires either using POV-Ray's
> plugin stuff, of which only 3 people have ever made one. QuietPOV, which
> is little more than a alternate way to start things up, the Moray Plugin
> that you can't get the source on and a totally non-functioning example
> you can use to base your own from. Most of the stuff in the plugin system
> no one has a clue how to use.
>
> In any case, I was just talking about how I would do it, if I had a clue
> how to do so. I was replying to someone else's comment about such a thing
> not existing and suggesting how some of it might work, if anyone even did
> manage to design it. But I have an aversion to plugin/external program
> solutions for "basic" functionality, so didn't suggest such as a
> possibility initially. At the very least, any external solution runs the
> risk of being abandoned, ending up non-free (which for me is a non-
> starter for even trying it) or eventually becomes useless as changes to
> the program it was designed for make it stop working. Something built in
> has less of a chance of this happening.
>
> Maybe I am just strange or something, but sometimes I think about
> solutions to *other people's* problems. Admittedly this seems to be
> something rare and almost unheard of in open source, where 90% of stuff
> that gets made is what the designer needed, not what they spent a few
> minutes considering someone else may actually find more usable...
>
> --
> void main () {

>     call functional_code()
>   else
>     call crash_windows();
> }

any updates on the grid computing front using POV since you guys had this
conversation?
24 hours rendering one image so far on a celeron 2.9 GHZ machine with 2GB
RAM... and counting...

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