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From: dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: renderman
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Date: 10 Jan 91 04:23:55 GMT
References: <1992@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <2490@motcsd.csd.mot.com> <1991Jan7.143225.10246@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
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>In article <2490@motcsd.csd.mot.com> lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) writes:

>>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.

Excuse my ignorance of the subject, but is Renderman a commercial only
library?  I assume that something so powerful would never be available
in the public domain...  There are several raytrace libraries
available, but few live up to the photorealism that Renderman has
been proven to produce.

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dean@coplex.UUCP   Dean A. Brooks
                   Copper Electronics, Inc.
                   Louisville, Ky
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