chr### [at] maccom (Chris Huff) wrote in <chrishuff-
60E1E5.13264428062000@news.povray.org>:

>In article <8F61873E3dashixpressnet@204.213.191.228>, das### [at] x-pressnet 
>(daishi) wrote:
>
>> is it not possible in pov to render only a portion of the screen? if 
>> it is it should be possible to hack a simple script together to do 
>> network rendering. bmrt comes with a script that does this (have one 
>> comp render a portion of the screen, another comp render another 
>> portion, etc then all the images are assembled by an external 
>> program)
>
>It is possible to render a portion of an image, but getting the images 
>tiled without discontinuities is a problem. If you distribute parts of 
>an image to different machines this way, features like radiosity, 
>antialiasing, etc can produce a "tiles" effect, like a mosaiac 
>photograph.
>


but if you use the same settings on all the machines it shouldn't be an 
issue, should it?

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