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Rendering Shrek@Home?

Posted by timothy on from the render-it-like-pork dept.

JimCricket writes "There's an interesting piece at Download Aborted about using distributed computing (a la SETI@Home, Grid.org, etc.) in the film industry. With the recent release of Shrek 2, which required a massive amount of CPU time to complete, one must wonder why the film industry doesn't solicit help from their fans. I'd gladly trade some spare CPU time in exchange for the coolness of seeing a few frames of Shrek 3 rendered on my screensaver!"

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  1. Re:Slashdot BLOG advertising... by slashrogue · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No shit. A blog with all of FOUR posts. I fail to see how this is news. We just filled in number 2:
    1. Make nonsenseical blog post.
    2. Submit Slashdot Story
    3. Profit!

  2. Dumb. by dthigpen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The author of this idea is just plain dumb.

    I'm smarter, sue me.