Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!pyro!blair
From: blair@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Grant Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: renderman
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.143225.10246@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Date: 7 Jan 91 14:32:25 GMT
References: <1992@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <2490@motcsd.csd.mot.com>
Organization: DuPont Electronic Imaging
Lines: 39

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
>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

I'd like to add my two cents' worth here: I use Pixar's MacRenderMan. The way
I use it is in the following manner: using a text editor, I construct a RIB
file of commands which are then parsed and rendered my MacRenderMan. Of course
it's slow - it runs on a Macintosh. But the output is very pleasing.

Then I send my TIFF output file to my 4CAST color printer and it prints a very
pretty picture.


Grant.



-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Grant C Blair, DuPont Imaging Systems, Newark, DE 19702, USA                 |
|blair@pyro.ei.dupont.com (192.58.195.64)        (302)-733-9533               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+