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From: Jules
Subject: network tracing?
Date: 28 Oct 2004 11:05:00
Message: <web.418109ca3191e9087fa97f490@news.povray.org>
Out of interest, does povray support network rendering? (i.e. several
machines on a LAN contributing to the same traced image)

I just had a flick through the docs and couldn't see anything, but was under
the impression (from the last time I used povray about 3 years ago) that it
did.

I work for a computer museum, and figured that machine(s) doing some
raytracing might make a nice exhibit. Of course we've got a *lot* of
hardware, but all our suitable Unix machines aren't particularly quick in
terms of raw CPU power. Coupled together though...

cheers

Jules


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From: Florian Brucker
Subject: Re: network tracing?
Date: 28 Oct 2004 12:35:33
Message: <41811fd5$1@news.povray.org>
Native POV does not support this. There are, however, some tools which 
will help you to accomplish the task:

Rendering one image with several machines:
POV-Anywhere http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/povany/index.html

Rendering an animation with several machines:
Internet Movie Project http://www.imp.org


HTH,
Florian
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From: Jules
Subject: Re: network tracing?
Date: 28 Oct 2004 16:10:00
Message: <web.418150e9d7ca40b47fa97f490@news.povray.org>
Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote:
> Native POV does not support this. There are, however, some tools which
> will help you to accomplish the task:
>
> Rendering one image with several machines:
> POV-Anywhere http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/povany/index.html
>
> Rendering an animation with several machines:
> Internet Movie Project http://www.imp.org

brilliant - just what I need, thanks. Now to see what completely random
hardware I can get POV running on... :-)

cheers,

Jules


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