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From: rick@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Rick Ottolini)
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Subject: Re: Comparisons between SunVision and RenderMan
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Date: 21 Sep 90 14:37:02 GMT
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In article <108567@philabs.Philips.Com> zhu@philabs.philips.com (Benjamin  Zhu) writes:
SunVision is an implementation of the RenderMan specification, that is one of
the five modules.  Another of the five modules is a CAD-like package for
building scenes rendered by RenderMan.

I guess your question would be better posed asking for how well each package
implmenents the RenderMan specification in terms of completeness, efficiency,
associated utilities, etc.