Alex McMurray wrote:

>Aside from the copyright side of it, which is discussed in depth by
>others, the sheer scope of the books, and the speed of todays computers,
>a project of this magnitude would take longer than any of has available,
>in this lifetime or the next.

Rendering time would depend on the resolution of the footage, and if it was
distributed it might be possible.

>As for the size of the file, even a single book would run into 100's of
>mb, and who would want to tie up their phone lines for days on end
>waiting for the file(s) to download.

Well... the file size would depend on the resolution of the video, For
example 320*180 would be a lot smaller than 1024*576, especially if it was
compressed. Maybe there could be a low detail version to download, and a
high detail one to buy on CD or DVD.

>Remember, even the studio who produced the film, spent years on the
>computer graphics alone, and that was scan line rendering, not ray
>tracing, which is faster to produce on a frame by frame basis.

Wouldn't the studios have done their rendering at a really high resolutions,
say 16000*9000 ? The studios would only have been using a few hundred
machines to do the rendering, a distributed project could have thousands.
Hell, if enough people joined the rendering team, they could be rendering
frames faster than the asrtists could make the scenes for rendering.

Rohan _e_ii

Nice to see someone else from Australia in the newsgroup.

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