[Sorry for multi-posting with p.b.utilities -- just read about the 
difference on http://news.povray.org/povray.announce.frequently-asked-
questions/16710/?tmax=100]

RendView is a utility to have films rendered using POVRay 
and post-processed in a local distributed UNIX/Linux environment. Features 
include rendering/filtering a sequence of frames (f000.pov,f001.pov...) 
or a list of scene files and POVRay clock values, tuning on per-frame 
basis, and resuming partly-rendered images, all either completely 
locally or distributed in a local IP network. 

RendView has been used by me to render films on a 20-node dual processor 
Linux pool and it rocked. However, due to lack of time, I did not do 
very much testing with version 0.6.9 -- everything should work but 
e-mail me in case of trouble. 

New features: (0.6.7 -> 0.6.9)
  - Checking mtime of additional files
  - LDR passwords from file
  - automatic compensation of different system times on client and server
  - use of a simple fit strategy for how to assign frames to clients 
    when only a few frames are left
  - and support for use of a shared directory (NFS) between clients and 
    server (normally RendView transferres files between client and server 
    using a TCP connection)
Check the homepage for more information about the latter two points. 

Bugfixes: Check out the homepage

Homepage:
 http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/ani/rendview/
Demo/Examples:

http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/ani/rendview/docu/examples.html

Have fun...
Wolfgang

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:07:33 +0200, Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> [Sorry for multi-posting with p.b.utilities -- just read about the 
> difference on http://news.povray.org/povray.announce.frequently-asked-
> questions/16710/?tmax=100]

You can always cancel post and repost it correct, thought useles when first
answer appear.

> RendView is a utility to have films rendered using POVRay 
> and post-processed

What you mean as 'post-processed'. I searched your site carefully and found
only "glowfilter" mentioned in examples. I can find section about
post-processing in your site - any more details ?

ABX

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ABX wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:07:33 +0200, Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde>
> wrote:
>> [Sorry for multi-posting with p.b.utilities -- just read about the
>> difference on http://news.povray.org/povray.announce.frequently-asked-
>> questions/16710/?tmax=100]
> 
> You can always cancel post and repost it correct, thought useles when
> first answer appear.
> 
Really? I don't know how to cancel a post. Could you enlighten me?

>> RendView is a utility to have films rendered using POVRay
>> and post-processed
> 
> What you mean as 'post-processed'. I searched your site carefully and
> found only "glowfilter" mentioned in examples. I can find section about
> post-processing in your site - any more details ?
> 
Well, you can use any filter which reads the image from stdin 
and writes a processed image to stdout. Such "filtering" is what I 
mean with "post-processing". 

However, RendView does not provide any such filter by itself -- it just 
provides a possibility to have the filtering done (just as it does 
not provide a renderer -- you need to use POVRay). 
Also the "glowfilter" does not exist. It's just there as an example 
of what you could do (use e.g. "cjpeg" instead of "glowfilter"). 

The best "filter" is probably a custom shell script which does 
what you want depending on the arguments you pass to it (which can 
be tuned on a per-frame basis). [Note however the chapter about 
shell scripts.] This enables you to use more than one filter for 
a frame. 

Wolfgang

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:38:29 +0200, Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> > You can always cancel post and repost it correct, thought useles when
> > first answer appear.
> 
> Really? I don't know how to cancel a post. Could you enlighten me?

http://knode.sourceforge.net/doc_en_0.3.2_online/more-knode-features.html#SUPERSEDE-AND-CANCEL

> However, RendView does not provide any such filter by itself -- it just 
> provides a possibility to have the filtering done (just as it does 
> not provide a renderer -- you need to use POVRay). 
> Also the "glowfilter" does not exist. It's just there as an example 
> of what you could do (use e.g. "cjpeg" instead of "glowfilter"). 

I see. I thought I could find some interesting algorithms to include in set of
macros prepared for MegaPOV 1.1 as for example in
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.animations/32438/

ABX

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ABX wrote:

>> Really? I don't know how to cancel a post. Could you enlighten me?
>
http://knode.sourceforge.net/doc_en_0.3.2_online/more-knode-features.html#SUPERSEDE-AND-CANCEL
> 
Thanks. 

But I'm not sure if it works. I posted this message without this 
note here and I can still see it in my reader...
Can you read it twice?

> I see. I thought I could find some interesting algorithms to include in
> set of macros prepared for MegaPOV 1.1 as for example in
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.animations/32438/
> 
Interesting stuff... hope it does not render too long. 
The more "postprocessing" we can do with POVRay, the better. 

Wolfgang

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