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- From: andrey@harry.ugcs.caltech.edu (Andre Yew)
- Subject: Re: arenderman update!
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:30:51 GMT
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- cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:
-
- >We already have so many rendering package in the market. How good is the
- >RenderMan?
-
- Pretty good -- most renderers we have on the Amiga
- market suck.
-
- Renderman-compliant renderers (it's more of a shading
- protocol than an individual renderer) can do lots of neat
- things. Among the neatest is its shading language -- you
- can specify in a subset of C the rendering equation that you'd
- like to use. You can achieve all sorts of nice effects
- with it. Try looking through The Renderman Companion for
- some examples.
-
- Also, Renderman is NOT a raytracer (although you can
- make it one with its shading language) intrinsically. It's
- a REYES renderer, which gives it the ability to do some really
- nice effects that no other Amiga renderer can do. One of the
- best effects is displacement mapping (no, Lightwave 3.0's
- doesn't count because it displaces only vertices). It can
- also do depth-of-field and motion-blurred renderings, which
- a couple of other Amiga renderers can do. It can also render
- NURBS, and I don't know if this is supported on any Amiga
- renderer right now. Perhaps the best description of Renderman
- is that it tries to simulate a real camera (REYES = Renders
- Everything You Ever Saw). Incidentally, Renderman isn't as
- slow as some people would like you to believe (we're using
- it in a project on a sloooooow machine).
-
- --Andre
-
- --
- Andre Yew andrey@through.ugcs.caltech.edu (131.215.131.169)
-