Ben Martens <bma### [at] purdueedu> wrote:
: 1)  I know it's possible to render parts of an image using command line
: switches.  However, if I send parts of a picture to different computers,
: this is going to mess up anti-aliasing, correct?

  Nope. POV-Ray has no problems with antialiasing with split images. This
is because it always calculates one extra line above the current first line
(haven't you noticed that POV-Ray calculates line 0?).

  What DOES cause problems is radiosity.

: 2)  Do I need to write my own routines to stitch the picture back together,
: or is there any easy way to accomplish this?

  If you output the images to raw TGA format, joining them is extremely easy
to do (even with plain unix tools). I have done this. Just take the first
image as is, and append the other images to it but each from byte 19 onwards
(the first 18 bytes are the header of the TGA).

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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