update: shortfilm, rendered in octane.

[cornel]

Just wanted to give you guys an quick preview of my first lenticular-print.
When watched with two eyes, this will give you a true three-dimensional spatial impression,
without the need of special glasses (it´s also known as auto-stereoscopy).

The video isn´t 3D at all, but shows the change in parallax quite well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi72ZzYu98k

Of course rendered with octane, that´s why I posted this here...

For some more informations about this technique check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing

[Skeletor]

I'm pretty sure you can't use Amazon since they would need to have Octane to render it

[bitoffish]

I'm pretty sure you can't use Amazon since they would need to have Octane to render it

You can run Octane on Amazon EC2. It's a bit tricky to get set up, since Octane has no headless mode, but I have done it. You need to be comfortable with Linux, VNC, X, SSH, and something like DrQueue if you want a proper cluster with multiple automated nodes. You can run a number of concurrent EC2 instances, but you have to fill out a form to spin up more than 8 at a time. Obviously you'll need as many Octane licenses as nodes in the cluster. I haven't yet worked out automating entering your Octane Live credentials when you load Octane for the first time on the node, but I expect you can use, well, expect.

@cornel If you are interested in getting something like this set up for your project, I'd be glad to talk to you.

For more info about the EC2 instances see http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/