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From: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Renderman
Keywords: RenderMan, Pixar, PhotoRealistic
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Date: 6 May 91 04:00:31 GMT
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In article <2406@wet.UUCP> vinl@wet.UUCP (Vin Locke) writes:
> 
> As I understand it, Renderman is a rendering package that accepts 
> three-dimensional drawings; however, the package itself doesn't contain
> a modeler with which to create the drawing 

I have the brochure from Pixar in front of me.  "Developer's RenderMan" is the  
all-purpose 3D rendering tool based on the "RenderMan Interface 3-D scene  
description specification" and the "PhotoRealistic" renderings.  The two  
together (modeling + rendering) form a complete package.

Just to make you drool:
- texture - reflectivity - multiple light sources - shadows 
- shading - motion blur - antialiasing - depth-of-field - transparency

I'm drooling too.  Here's hoping the threat of charging $2500 ($1500) is just a  
marketing ploy and it *will* be bundled in 3.0...

	-- Ernie P.
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Ernest N. Prabhakar             Caltech High Energy Physics
CaJUN President   NeXTMail:ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu
"If we are out of our minds, it is for God." - II Cor 5:13a