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From: karsh@trifolium.SGI.COM (Bruce Karsh)
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Subject: Re: RenderMan Standard
Keywords: RenderMan
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Date: 10 May 89 21:34:52 GMT
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In article <11262@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>
>	There is a problem with this:  There is no Renderman *file*
>specification.

I have a real old version (V3.0 May 88) of the RenderMan Interface
spec.  It says in the introduction:

	A byte stream representation of the RenderMan interface will also
	be defined in a separate document.  This byte stream is meant to
	serve as an external file format and network transport protocol
	for passing information between modeling systems and rendering
	systems.

Does anybody know if this document is available?
--

			Bruce Karsh
			karsh@sgi.com

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living
truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get
at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.