| Active Distributed Computing Projects - Art |
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The
electric sheep project uses an
xscreensaver module to display an animated fractal flame while rendering
frames for the next animation. It is designed for users with with
high-bandwidth, always-on Internet connections. It doesn't seem to work
through firewalls. Version 2.5 is available for Linux, FreedBSD and Windows
as of April 13, 2004. Beta version 2.5 b1 is available for Mac OSX.
See example images of fractal flames. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
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Render images for computer-animated movies in
Internet Movie Project. The project is an
open-source collaboration of volunteers and is just for fun. It is still
in the development phase, but you can volunteer to be a "render-farmer," to
render images for test animation sequences. Anyone who can run the free
POV-Ray ray-tracing program can join this
project, although the supporting scripts and software needed for the project
only work on the Windows and Linux platforms for now.
The project released its first general-release distributed rendering client along with a live job, on November 12, 2001. It is releasing live jobs frequently as of June, 2003, to test and further develop the system.
Job #31 (2,790 frames) was completed in February, 2004. See information and movies for past projects on the job status page. Version 0.61 of the IMPFarm client is available for Windows and Linux as of December 30, 2003. To use the client, you need to register on the project website and supply that userid and password to the client. Join a discussion forum about the project. And/or join its IRC Channel to chat in realtime (Network: irc.newnet.net, channel: #IMP (or if you don't have an IRC client you can use the newnet web chat at http://www.newnet.net/jirc/chatme.html. Just type /join #IMP in the text box and press Enter.)) |
Job #45: 100% |
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