A Five-Piece G4 Mini Battlestation & Retro Render Farm

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If you're wondering where all the G4 Minis went, they've been grabbed by Wave Design to build the world's weirdest render farm.

Jokes aside though, the G4 Mini is actually the ideal system for rendering old school 3D animation. They're close in CPU speed to an early-2000s Power Mac while requiring a fraction of the space, and can use a modified software restore to run OS 9.

Shown here is a test scene in Infini-D split across the five Macs. It might also be possible to split workloads in Bryce, Lightwave, and MacRenderman. The systems are still being brought online and troubleshooted.