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Renderman
Pixar
has established a reputation for itself in 3D
computer graphics with a series of short movies
("Tin Toy", "Red's Dream.") Though it
is often thought of as ray tracing, Pixars
RenderMan software actually does not use ray
tracing, but uses scanline rendering.
While this author believes that much of the impact
of Pixar's work was the quality of the stories and
animation rather than the capability of the
software itself, Pixar built a name for itself and
started selling software to end users.
Unfortunately, the software that was released
(particularly some of the packages released for Mac
and PC users) were very limited in their
capability; no modeling tools, limited or no
animation capabilities.
Pixar eventually removed itself from the software
market to concentrate on motion pictures: Toy
Story.
RIB
(RenderMan Interface Bytestream) is the file format
used by the Renderman renderer. This is an
ACSII-text language that can be "programmed" much
like a computer language.
last updated: 6/11/98
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