Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!gatech!ncar!ames!lll-lcc!well!ewhac From: ewhac@well.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: RenderMan Summary: Yeah, that reminds me... Message-ID: <6516@well.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 88 06:05:32 GMT References: <475@ghidrah.tessi.UUCP> <10468@oberon.USC.EDU> Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Organization: The Comic Relief Machine Lines: 33 Quote: "Raffert was dying. It's difficult to be neat under those circumstances." -- Avon In article <10468@oberon.USC.EDU> annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) writes: >The RenderMan Interface, Version 3.0, May 1988 >Pixar >3240 Kerner Blvd. >San Rafael, CA 94901 >(415)258-8100 > >The RenderMan interface is designed to be a standard interface between >modeling programs and rendering programs capable of producing photorealistic >quality images. Renderman is designed so that information needed to specify >a photorealistic image can be passed to different rendering programs compactly >and efficiently. [ ... ] In order to do this, the interface does not >specify how the picture is to be rendered, but instead specifies what picture >is desired. > This reminds me: I picked up a copy of this about a month ago. What it appears to be is a library interface specification for a rendering package (Thou shalt name thy functions this way, and they shall accept these arguments). Now the question: Have they settled on a file storage format for RenderMan-defined scenes? I mean, the library interface specification is wonderful and all, but I can't see how I can use a modelling program to create models/scenes for it, unless it generates C source as output. Am I missing something? Am I from Mars? Is it my breath?... Hey, where did everybody go? _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: UUCP: pacbell > !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Hmm, you're right. Air is made up of suspended meat loaf." -- Josh Siegel