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From: rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: RenderMan is only a partial solution
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Date: 13 Aug 89 15:12:25 GMT
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to 3D graphics and color.  It is very good at the coloring/shading end,
average in specifying geometric attributes, and barely addresses the issue
of graphic object organization.  The specificiation is low-level, but
fairly complete.  That means RenderMan programs will require a fairly large
number of subroutine calls will accompanying increased probability of bugs
until more abstract front ends are constructed.  Perhaps NeXT is designing such
in NeXTStep now.