I had an idea back in the day to distribute the graphics rendering to all users.


Basically you would log on and a square or sphere that you occupied would be rendered by your computer. Everything in that room would model the light, objects, etc.

Going the route of a square you would have 6 sides that you would send/receive pixel information which includes the light/intensity/angle of direction and even for objects moving in and out each pixel could include mass/material/trajectory/speed/acceleration, etc.

Someone in the adjacent square would be able to view your room through the wall of pixels and render it within their room which would be passed to the next room and on and on.

This would allow for some very detailed graphics to be rendered in each room.

The problem would be the large bandwidth cost of passing a lot of information between 'rooms'. I was hoping for enough compression and higher bandwidths down the road which could handle it.

Never got around to testing just a single stream of light or anything, thought it would be a cool distributed concept though.