On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:59:25PM +0800, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote (wyy sez): > En Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:26:24PM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero escribio: > #_ > But how is it that a cluster works with less overhead than > #_ > a commercial render manager, as you mentioned earlier? > #_ > > #_ > #_ this has do with granularity again. cluster rendering software > #_ (POVRAY) divide the frame into smaller subframes. however, render > #_ managers divide a movie into smaller frames. this is an example of > > A render manager will divide a movie into smaller frames or is it > smaller scenes (a series of frames)? > depends on the commercial render manager you are talking about. but, RenderMan (SGI) divides the scenes into frames and the frames are farmed out in batches. so each frame is processed as a whole.
POVRAY subdividies each frame pa into smaller subframes. -------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) email : wyy at admu dot edu dot ph web : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/ phone : 63(2)4266001-4186 GPG : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/wyy.pgp War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon
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