> > And I have more of a WAN-oriented version underway at
> > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/rfarm/
> >
> > Now that things are taken care of like deadlines at work, getting taxes in,
> > getting going with Linux at home (finally)... work is once again in progress.
> 
>  Thanks for the tip Jon. Is this in cooperation with the work being
> done by Nigel Stewart for the the IMP or is this a seperate project
> all together ? 

	Jon and I are doing seperate work - Jon is working top-down,
	I'm working bottom-up, and sometime we'll meet-up and get
	it all working.  Jon is working on the scene distribution
	aspects, network protocol, etc.  I've been fiddling with
	aspects of POV that could be useful for network rendering:

	-  File dependency determination, for a given frame of animation.
	-  Facility to use TAR files as read-only filesystem.
	   (Basically to break the tyranny of 8.3 filenames)
	-  Filesystem file queing mechanism for passive render-slave
	   mode.  (Put all incoming INI's in the 'in' folder, output
	   gets dumped in 'out' folder)

	I hope this clarifies things.

-- 
Nigel Stewart (nig### [at] eisanetau)  http://www.eisa.net.au/~nigels/
Postgrad Research Student, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
All extremists should be taken out and shot.

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