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From: pierre@Autodesk.COM (Pierre Malraison)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Renderman and trimmed surfaces
Keywords: shading,Pixar,rendering,surfaces
Message-ID: <3667@autodesk.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 91 19:25:15 GMT
Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA
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Renderman sipports a wide variety of surface types, but none of them are allowed to
be trimmed.

1) Has anyone come up with a reasonable way to display trimmed surfaces
(e.g. a NURB with a hole in the midddle) in Renderman?

2) If not, is it planned for any future revision of Renderman.
More generally,besides CSG what about B-reps?


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Pierre Malraison
U.S. Snail: Autodesk ,Inc. 2320 Marinship Way,Sausalito CA 94965
e-mail:         pierre@acad.uu.net
Opinions expressed above purely personal.