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From: rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RenderMan Standard
Keywords: RenderMan
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Date: 5 Apr 89 21:17:35 GMT
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In article <488@orange6.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (scott sutherland) writes:
>
>	After reading this article, my toes started to tingle and I got this
>excited feeling inside. I thought, "this is exactly what the Amiga 3-d
>graphics modelling and animation community needs"! We have an IFF standard,


     I suggested to the president of Byte by Byte that Sculpt-4D should
generate RenderMan output files.  (I know it could never trace RenderMan
input files!).  He said that he will not implement it unless he can get
paid for it, and that there is not enough intrest in it to increase the
sales of Sculpt.  There may be a Mac version thought.

     I personally think it would be great.  I could edit objects with
Sculpt, upload them to our Pixar, and than trace them very fast.  We
need a standard like this and must insist on it.  We have too many
different formats already and interchange is just a temporary fix.  Please
call up Byte by Byte, and the other companies and ask for RenderMan.

							--Rob.


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