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Re: Online LCAD???
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 23:11:44 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:

In lugnet.cad, John VanZwieten wrote:

Computer processing power is the greatest obstacle right now.  Maybe we could
work something out with IBM to use a slice of the "Blue Gene" computer they
are developing :)

Maybe we could all donate our old computers to ldraw.org, and establish a
rendering server farm.  :)

That *might* work OK for doing a lot of renderings of small scenes, but probably
wouldn't be very helpful for big scenes.  I don't know that anyone has
parallelized (or distributized?) massive rendering tasks...

Steve

I know that there are several programs that can do paralell rendering. 3d studio max
springs to mind.

--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/



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  Re: Online LCAD???
 
(...) Maybe we could all donate our old computers to ldraw.org, and establish a rendering server farm. :) That *might* work OK for doing a lot of renderings of small scenes, but probably wouldn't be very helpful for big scenes. I don't know that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)

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