Newsgroups: comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing,comp.parallel.pvm From: thomas@trust.aztec-design.co.uk (Thomas Molesworth) Reply-To: thomas@bass.almac.co.uk Subject: Re: PVM PoV-Ray speed Organization: Aztec Design Linux Date: 3 Aug 1997 16:52:14 GMT Message-ID: On 30 Jul 1997 11:31:24 GMT, Deischinger Harald wrote: >Hi > >I'm the one, who ported PVMPOV to vesion 3.0. >So I know a bit of what is going on. My thanks for taking the trouble to port it. >Here is how animatons work: --cut-- >This method should be good for short animations, >especially when there are more processors than frames. > >For bigger animations it is propably better to >run PovRay sequentally for a block of frames on >each processor. As far as I remember there is a >shell script in the "aero" package to do that >automatically. This is exactly what I am doing now, by making a set of ini files with the subset frames set. It works very well. -- Thomas Molesworth (thomas@bass.almac.co.uk)