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26 Dec 2024 02:42:40 EST (-0500)
  Re: Grid Computing Question to POV users  
From: povray
Date: 19 Feb 2006 22:25:04
Message: <pan.2006.02.19.19.57.14.568406@localhost>
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:09:16 -0500, Edee wrote:

> Running on windows XP with some architectural scenes that involve over 400K
> tokens.  Average rendering time for most scenes is time prohibitive.  I
> have access to other XP systems on the LAN but have no knowledge on how to
> distibute a single rendering task across them.  Has anyone been able to do
> grid computing using POV on XP who can help?
> thanks in advance.

	Render the image in pieces, one piece per computer.
The 
 +S
 +E
options will do this.  More info on that in the documentation.
	You would then stitch the pieces together in photoshop or
something like that to get the final image.


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