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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: RenderMan Interface availability
Summary: This really should go in news.somewhere
Keywords: RenderMan, graphics standards
Message-ID: <4983@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 88 06:02:29 GMT
References: <2026@pixar.UUCP> <749@applix.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <749@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
>In article <2026@pixar.UUCP> ri@pixar.UUCP (RenderMan Information) writes:
>>The specification document is over 100 pages long and will not be
>>posted to the net.  If you would like a copy of the RenderMan Interface 
>>specification, please send a U.S.Mail request on your letterhead to ...
>
>100 pages is something like 1/2 meg or about 10 postings.  If the net
>can handle 30-odd posts for a game of mahjongg, then surely...

The mahjongg tiles postings certainly did not go unnoticed; there
was a small ruckus in news.* about it, actually.

>I thought this spec. was supposed to be something SIGNIFICANT in
>the computer graphics industry.  Why else does this newsgroup exist??

To answer the time honoured question: ``How do I convert RGB --> CMY'' :-)

In reality, the renderman stuff is not of intrest, I suspect to
the general readership of this group, hence, I dont agree it should
be posted (but wouldnt mind if it was), but it would be nice it
email requests for it were honoured (not everybody has access to
ftp) and if 100+ requests were received (unlikely) maybe it should
be posted.



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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard