The recent automation was really just help with organisation. As soon as I started looking at running OpenSCAD from the shell/command-line it became obvious that I could do the rendering and organisation in one step without having to use external apps like Hazel.
So, that’s now done. I render all the frames, with more sensible filenames, to a single folder.
If I run all the renders one after the other, maxing out a single CPU core (99% CPU usage), time taken:
~17 seconds 🐢
But, using the & directive and wait command, I can run the renders in parallel (well, technically it’s one process each; and batches of 32 works best) using all 6 CPU cores (~485% CPU usage), time taken:
~10 seconds 🐇
…the beauty of the command line!
Note to self: don’t publish a post about an automation breakthrough until the dust has settled.