While I am enjoying the microdots-spy approach to tag an image with secret render host information, am I missing something or you could just check your render logs? Or... you don't have logs? =P
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:50 AM, chris <[email protected]> wrote: > or extending on that idea... > since a single black pixel could be noticable in the middle of bright > colored pixels, you could duplicate the pixel color next to it (or even > average the pixels around it), and add an offset with the hostname value. > this would probably be invisible even by the most critical eyes :) > > example if the pixel on the bottom left [0,0] is to hold the machine ID > data: > - average pixels [0,1], [1,1] and [1,0] to calculate the [0,0] color value > - add tiny offset color value representing the machine ID to that pixel > [0,0] > > obviously you'd want a second script which automatically calculates the > machine ID from the 4 pixels on the bottom left. > > there's probably an easier way that i'm not aware of though ;) > ++ chris > > > > > On 1/29/13 at 7:27 PM, [email protected] (chris) wrote: > > hmm, or if you can spare a single pixel somewhere, you could just burn in >> the hostname as color (or alpha) value... >> like in the bottom right corner, each render machine gets a slightly >> different shade of black (ie render1 is 0.00001, render2 is 0.00002 etc) >> >> then if you have corrupt renders you could check the pixel value and see >> where it came from. >> >> ++ chris >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected].**co.uk<[email protected]>, > http://forums.thefoundry.co.**uk/ <http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/> > http://support.thefoundry.co.**uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**nuke-users<http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users> > -- "Attention, attention. Here and now, boys," the mynah repeated. "Here and now, boys."
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