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From: eliot@pixar.uucp (Eliot Smyrl)
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Subject: Re: renderman
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Date: 7 Jan 91 19:46:13 GMT
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In article <2490@motcsd.csd.mot.com> lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) writes:
>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
As mentioned in Jeremy Dashe's previous posting, "RenderMan" is a scene
description standard intended for the interface between modelers and renderers.
Pixar's implementation of this standard, PhotoRealistic RenderMan, is
available on Mac, PC, Sun 3, Sun 4 (SparcStation), and SGI 4D series machines.

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>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.

It's actually called "VectRMan", and it comes with the PhotoRealistic
RenderMan package on all machines mentioned above. It's not real-time (in
the sense of SGI realtime wireframes, for example), but it is fast.
And whether PRMan is "extremely slow" is debatable :-)

>Lance

Eliot Smyrl
Member of Technical Staff
Pixar
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