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- From: wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu (William Shipley)
- Subject: Re: Renderman references (the QRM spec)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.112407.15758@u.washington.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 11:24:07 GMT
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- Daryll Strauss writes:
- > Both of these are slightly out of date with respect to RenderMan on the
- > NeXT. Pixar, and others, are defining a spec for RenderMan 4.0. The NeXT
- > implementation seems to be a preliminary version of the RenderMan 4.0
- > spec. I don't know where you can get details on the new additions, I
- > hope that the 3.0 final documentation includes them.
-
- Check the release notes, there is a draft copy of the Quick RenderMan spec,
- which includes operators that I assume will also be in RenderMan 4.0.
-
- Note that lots of the QRM ops will ONLY work in Quick RenderMan (for instance,
- the circle and line ops), so if you print documents using them you'll lose 'em.
-
- -William Shipley
- The Omni Group
-