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.

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