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From: prem@geomag.fsu.edu (Prem Subrahmanyam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Renderman
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Date: 30 May 90 13:39:59 GMT
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In article <2893@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>as I've seen in Pixar animations.  And the one effect that none of the
>packages for the Amiga have is depth of field, wher stuff closer, or farther
>from the camera goes out of focus.

   Actually, no _commercial_ Amiga renderer supports variable depth of
   field, however, the _public domain_ ray-tracer, DBW_Render, does support
   this, plus a whole lot more nice features, like fractals, procedural marble/
   wood/mottling textures, etc.  The only problem with DBW right now is the lack
   of a decent user interface--I'm trying to design a Modeler3d to DBW converter
   as we speak.
   ---Prem Subrahmanyam