Alex McMurray <ale### [at] melbpcorgau> wrote in
news:3D52EE42.48ADA129@melbpc.org.au: 

> Rohan Bernett wrote:
>> Wouldn't the studios have done their rendering at a really high
>> resolutions, say 16000*9000 ? The studios would only have been using
>> a few hundred machines to do the rendering, a distributed project
>> could have thousands. Hell, if enough people joined the rendering
>> team, they could be rendering frames faster than the asrtists could
>> make the scenes for rendering. 
>> 
> Agreed, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace did this, but they also used
> the office PC's when the office staff went home, augmenting their own
> PC's by another 100 or so.

I have an idea: why not make a POV-Ray screen saver, like the Seti@Home 
one, or those use to break a cryptographic challenge or to decode genome?

A server would send scenes to render, the home computer would render the 
scene and send it back to the server.

While the scene would be of reasonable size (unless using huge meshes), 
the rendered images would be big, which make a less practical idea than 
Seti, where exchanged data is rather small...
Perhaps it will more usable when most people will have broadband 
connexions to Internet.

Actually, I believe that the current POV-Ray licence doesn't allow such an 
idea, but perhaps it can be done in the 4.0 version.

Regards.

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