chr### [at] maccom (Chris Huff) wrote in <chrishuff-
CE60D9.14082128062000@news.povray.org>:

>In article <8F619D6A0dashixpressnet@204.213.191.228>, das### [at] x-pressnet 
>(daishi) wrote:
>
>> but if you use the same settings on all the machines it shouldn't be an 
>> issue, should it?
>
>No, because radiosity is view dependant, and also because it relies on 
>randomized sampling, caching data, as well as generating data on the 
>fly, each square will have shading which is a little bit different from 
>it's neighbors. Similar problems may exist for other features.
>


okay, so do it by line insted of by tile. send the first 10 lines to one 
comp, next 10 to another, etc. only problem you might run into is 
reassembling the images in the right order. pov-ray already supports this 
with its resume feature, just no one has written a way to do it 
distributedly

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