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4 Oct 2024 11:21:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: just an idea for photon  
From: Rick
Date: 29 Mar 1999 02:25:35
Message: <36ff2aef.0@news.povray.org>
Sounds ok to me, any ideas anybody?

Rick

Noam Lewis wrote in message <36FEA587.87B66580@netvision.net.il>...
>Although I don't have the photon patch, I have an idea for all those
>that do:
>
>1. Someone think up a nice animation with lots of caustics.
>2. That someone tests it in low resolution and without photons
>3. Devide this animation between all those who HAVE the photon patch,
>each one decides how many frames he wants and which ones
>4. RENDER!
>5. Each one sends his frames (with loss-less compress, such as ZIP) to
>one guy
>6. That guy fixes up the final animation and posts it here.
>
>As individual images take dozens of hours to render, maybe the division
>should be by lines pre picture and not by frame (for example, one guy
>does lines 54-302 in some frame)
>
>Anyway, just an idea, tho it would be nice!
>And about the patch, If anyone has patched Povray for Windows 3.1 with
>photon mapping, please inform me! i have no intention of doing it
>myself...laziness *sigh* ;)
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>ME
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