If you're an artist working in 3D, there's a good chance you have a problem.
If you're an artist working in 3D, there's a good chance you have a problem.
That's because, for the past eight years, a service called the Render Network has allowed artists to upload their creations to a "decentralized" computer system that handles the processing of those creations, the Verge reports.
The problem is that the system doesn't actually store the creations but handles the computing for them, meaning that when a user creates a render, the computer doesn't know it's there.
And that's a real problem, according to the Render Network's blog.
"When a user creates a render on the Render Network, the computer doesn't know it," the blog states.
"It doesn't know that it's being used.
It doesn't know that it's being processed.
It doesn't know that it's being streamed.
It doesn't know that it's being analyzed.
It doesn't know that it's being stored."
In fact, the Render Network says it has processed more than 1 million renders on the decentralized system over the past
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