[Radiance-general] super high res images

[Jack de Valpine]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the follow-up. I figured you might have some insight. I too 
had thought of putting together a script as well to "trim" the borders.

Have you run your large images renderings distributed over multiple 
machines? How has this worked for you?

-Jack

Mark Stock wrote:

> Jack,
>
> I have only done images up to 28800x28800 (3 GB file), and always by 
> using rpiece or the method that you suggest. Unfortunately, I have 
> always done pfilt on the whole image, so I have no experience with 
> pfilting beforehand.
>
> I can imagine that you could cobble together a script that would read 
> data from the adjacent images and attach a thin border around each 
> piece, allowing you to pfilt first. Then you could trim the extra 
> border off and assemble the full image later.
>
> You've probably thought of this, though.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jack de Valpine wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What wisdom do people have about generating absurdely (IMHO) large 
>> images (for example 22,000 x 22,000 at 3 times over sample, eg 
>> running at 76,000 x 76,000). The best thing that I can think of is to 
>> render the images as a seriese of sub views (tiles) with appropriate 
>> shift and lifts so the final image can be composed from the sub 
>> pieces. If the tiles are all pfilted (using the same exposure 
>> settings) to their final size prior to composing the final image will 
>> there be problems at the tile edges?
>>
>> Thanks for any input/guidance,
>>
>> -Jack de Valpine
>>
>>
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