I am happy to announce the availability of the Blue Moon Rendering
Tools (BMRT), a collection of rendering programs which adhere to the
RenderMan(R) interface standard.  RenderMan is a registered trademark
of Pixar.

   The toolkit consists of a full implementation of the RenderMan
standard which supports ray tracing, radiosity, area light sources,
texture and environment mapping, programmable shading in the RenderMan
Shading Language, motion blur, automatic ray cast shadows, and other
advanced features.  The toolkit also contains quick RIB previewers
(using GL or X11) to allow "pencil tests" of scenes and animations.

   The BMRT is being distributed as shareware.  Feel free to grab a
copy for evaluation.  If you like it and continue to use it, a
"donation" is requested.  In exchange, this makes you a registered
user, which means that you will be informed of bugs and updates, get
some support, etc.  It's all outlined in the License file that comes
with the distribution.

   The toolkit is distributed as binaries for the following platforms:
SGI running IRIX 4.05 or later, HP 9000 8xx/7xx running HP-UX, Sun
SPARC, NeXTSTEP (HP, Motorola, and Intel).  Other platforms may be
supported if requested.  Source code is not distributed, so please
don't even bother asking for it.  The toolkit comes with full
documentation, several example scenes which illustrate the various
nonstandard features, and several example shaders.

   The BMRT is available via the WWW:

        http://www.seas.gwu.edu/student/gritz/bmrt.html

   For more details, feel free to contact me:

        gritz@seas.gwu.edu
        Larry Gritz
        Dept. of EE & CS, George Washington University
        801  22nd St. NW, Rm. T-624G
        Washington, DC 20052

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Larry Gritz,   gritz@seas.gwu.edu         Dept. of EE & CS
The George Washington University          801  22nd St. NW, Rm. T-624G
(202) 994-0460 (voice) -0227 (fax)        Washington, DC 20052