[Bf-python] Splitting frames addon / feature

[ArM]

I started thinking about render farms and I realized that it would be good
feature for Blender, if you could split your frames to multiple servers.
The method would be similar as what we do when we create panoramas with irl
cameras.

It (maybe) has to have a "hidden timeline" that splits every frame to
chosen amount of frames and turns the camera automatically so you get every
frame as a panorama composition.

For example if I'm creating an image or an animation with size 1920*1080, I
would like to split it to 4 frames, that are every single one as 480*270.
Then with compositor or Photoshop or what ever I could join them back
together as one single frame. The idea came to my mind when I was thinking
of one specific renderfarm: https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com

If you could split your animation to smaller tasks to multiple servers at
once, it could make the rendering little faster since slower computers
cannot slow the rendering process that much as they could do if they had to
render whole frame at once. Or am I wrong?

I'm not a programmer myself, so I just ask if someone understands the
benefits of this and how this could be done, or is even interested to
develop this idea further.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?393876-Is-there-a-script-to-create-panoramas
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