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- From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
- Subject: Re: port renderman (?!)
- Message-ID: <wfqmf=#@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 06:32:25 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <1992Jul30.854.8092@dosgate>
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- In article <1992Jul30.854.8092@dosgate> "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com> writes:
- >Hi all,
- >
- >Well, I just received some information from PIXAR about RenderMan
- >and all their related products, and partially to my suprise, the
- >RenderMan Toolkit is available on the following platforms:
- >
- >Sun3, Sun 4/SPARC, SGI 4D/Indigo, DECstation, HP9000 300/400,
- >HP9000 700, NeXT, RISC 6000, 80386/486 PC (!!?)...
- >
- >(Also, theres MacRenderMan...)
- >
- >I already knew that there was no Amiga version of the software, but
- >was unaware that it is available for the IBM.
- >
- >Now, I was thinking that if enough people were to request that RenderMan
- >be ported over to the Amiga, maybe PIXAR would.
- >
- >Your Part: Just E-Mail me a short message stating that you would like
- > to see an AmigaRenderman (mouthful ;) ). Also, please
- > indicate the price range you would consider buying it at
- > from the following: $1000, $800, $500-under. ( keep in
- > mind that MacRenderman retails for $795)
- >
- >My Part: I'll collect all the responses and FAX them a list of people
- > who would like to see it. I'll Fax them the list as of
- > AUGUST 14, just over 2 weeks from now. If the response
- > continues past that, I'll Fax them a second list.
-
-
- Good luck!!
-
- In my heart, I believe that PIXAR would be better off with an
- Amiga. Boy, it my spur some serious modeler ports. Actually, it would
- give me a reason to buy a 68040. Right now, I can hardly say that
- Imagine 2.0 would be a reason.
-
-
-
- >
- >PS: I know that RenderMan is just a rendering program, but once that
- > is ported, there shouldn't be a problem convincing programmers to
- > write a modeller for it...
-
- Damn right!!
- Lightwave is like small dick compared to renderman.
- Not only becuase renderman is more flexible but becuase there is a
- heck of a lot of software written around it. Imagine all the neat
- MAC rendering software that will be ported.
-
- By the way, 600 dollars. I would, but I have access to one at
- main campus. I know our SUs would be interested in the market
- after Renderman's arrival to the Amiga platform.
-
- > _________________________________________________________________________
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- >| \ \// || || || James Kewageshig |\|
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