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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)
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In article <10468@oberon.USC.EDU> annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) writes:
>The RenderMan Interface, Version 3.0, May 1988
>Pixar
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>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?

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