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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RenderMan Standard
Keywords: RenderMan
Message-ID: <11262@well.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 89 10:32:31 GMT
References: <488@orange6.qtp.ufl.edu> <12642@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <12642@swan.ulowell.edu> rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers) writes:
>     I suggested to the president of Byte by Byte that Sculpt-4D should
>generate RenderMan output files.  [ ... ]

	There is a problem with this:  There is no Renderman *file*
specification.  Unless I'm very much mistaken (and I probably am), the
Renderman spec simply says that, if you're writing a renderer, thou shalt
name thy functions this and they shall accept these parameters and they
shall do these things.  This implies that, currently, the only way to
express a Renderman scene portably is by C source code.

	I'll have to read my copy of the spec again to be sure.

	(It'd be kinda neat to have renderman.library in the LIBS: directory
for 1.5.)

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