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I have an idea that may be worth looking into, but I'd like some feedback
from people on this forum first. I have many computers that sit around and
do very little for the most part, as PCs tend to do. Do you think that
people would pay to have these computers render POV scenes quickly? Let's
say you could get the equivalent of 10 top of the line Pentium IV's working
24 hours full time rendering your scene in a couple of hours. Would this be
worth $10? $20? Nothing?
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Sam McKittrick wrote:
> worth $10? $20? Nothing?
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sc_fe_l_2/102-6100069-1129757?ie=UTF8&node=201590011&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
You're drinking too much coffee when you buy brown
blotchy rugs and countertops to hide the stains
of coffee sloshed from the mug in your shaking hand.
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> Sam McKittrick wrote:
> > worth $10? $20? Nothing?
>
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http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sc_fe_l_2/102-6100069-1129757?ie=UTF8&node=201590011&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA
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That seems like a lot of work for someone who just wants to render some
images. In any case, would you buy such a service, from either me or from
Amazon?
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Sam McKittrick wrote:
> That seems like a lot of work for someone who just wants to render some
> images.
Not ... really. You fire up the computer, copy some files onto it with
ssh, render them, copy the results back, and turn off the computer. It
takes about 10 or 15 minutes to set things up, less if you're using
Linux already.
I'm working on a program that automates much of this for you.
Eventually, I'll put it in a public image that you can just put your
scenes in a directory on your machine and say "store it, launch it,
watch it, fetch the results", and be done with it. (Right now, the
program works, but the "launch it" part isn't implemented yet. With the
new version of ECC supporting REST calls, it should be relatively easy
to make work.) Once you have everything set up with it, you wouldn't
personally be interacting with Amazon at all, other than signing up for
the service and configuring your identities.
> In any case, would you buy such a service, from either me or from
> Amazon?
I already do, as you might have guessed. I was providing the link more
as a price point (as you asked) than anything else - $0.20/hour for
1.7GHz and 160M of disk, 1.75G RAM. Plus a stable and branded service.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
You're drinking too much coffee when you buy brown
blotchy rugs and countertops to hide the stains
of coffee sloshed from the mug in your shaking hand.
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Sam McKittrick wrote:
> I have an idea that may be worth looking into, but I'd like some feedback
> from people on this forum first. I have many computers that sit around and
> do very little for the most part, as PCs tend to do. Do you think that
> people would pay to have these computers render POV scenes quickly? Let's
> say you could get the equivalent of 10 top of the line Pentium IV's working
> 24 hours full time rendering your scene in a couple of hours. Would this be
> worth $10? $20? Nothing?
For doing animations, the IMP is a free service. Good luck competing
with that :)
...Chambers
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