Fabulist!

Borrowing CPU cycles is becoming quite popular these days. Like the earlier post on discovering planets, and the original SETI@Home, a company in Japan is taking initiative to render an animated film via the desktops of volunteers. >>Japanese animation studios Shirogumi and Buildin have announced that their next feature will be partially rendered using spare cycles on volunteers' PCs, using NTT Communications' Cell Computing Birth system. Participants download a piece of client software and register; the software is intended to make them feel "part of the process" as they see the frames that are being worked on cycle across their screen. (link)