The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray) is a free, high-quality tool for creating three-dimensional graphics. With a small library you can now remotely execute povray and thus leverage external computer ressources. The client side program allows one to distribute image rendering or animations across different sites and compose the pieces into a single picture or movie.

The syntax for invoking the NetSolve-POV-Ray is the same as for the conventional version with a few extra options. e.g, instead of:

     ./povray +Iicl.pov +W500 +H400
	 

you would use

     ./nspovray +Iicl.pov +W500 +H400
     

To distribute the job accross 3 machines in a non-blocking manner use

     ./nspovray +Iicl1.pov +W500 +H400 +N3 -non-blocking
     

For rendering a movie you can use the task-farming feature of NetSolve by invoking it with the following options

     ./nspovray icl.ini +Oicl.mpg +W500 +H400 +N4 -farming
     
   

Researcher: Christoph Fabianek ( fabianek@fsmat.at )
Institution: Vienna University of Technology