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From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: renderman
Message-ID: <2490@motcsd.csd.mot.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 20:25:45 GMT
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toby@r2.cs.man.ac.uk (Toby Howard) writes:

>Hi, I'd like to get an implementation of Renderman. Can anyone advise me on
>availability?

Yes, it's out for the Mac.  Renderman by itself is a library; you can
trace off all library interactions to a .rib file, and replay that file
with a program that reads the .rib (Renderman Intermediate Something)
file and does all the library calls again.

Pixar is working on something called Gallery, which is a cute front end with
lots of pre-defined stuff so you can make pictures without writing C code.
Obligatory Mac Flame: On the Mac, this is a true blessing.

It's extremely slow.  Pixar has something else called WireMan (??)
which just does wire-frames and is real-time.  You code with Wire-Man
and then render with RenderMan.

Lance