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	RenderMan® Repository Top
		RenderMan is actually a technical specification for interfacing between modeling and rendering programs.
		For a renderer to be a considered a RenderMan compliant renderer it must meet all of the standard requirements laid out in the spec.
		RenderMan Interface Bytestream (RIB), very simply, is the file format used to pass scene information (model data, lights, camera, shaders, attributes, and options) to a RenderMan renderer to control image that it will render.
	www.renderman.org (1508 words)

	RenderMan - WikiCG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		RenderMan is the name of a computer graphics rendering technology developed by Pixar Animation Studios; an implementation of Pixar's photorealistic 3D description standard, the RenderMan Interface Specification.
		RenderMan per se is not a single piece of software.
		Other people have implemented RenderMan compliant renderers and 3Delight is one of the better ones (and it's free, which doesn't hurt).
	www.wikicg.com /wiki/index.php/RenderMan (749 words)

	8 RenderMan Interface
		The RenderMan interface is one of the few interfaces for rendering programs which is able to describe both still images and animations for a wide variety of rendering algorithms.
		One shortcoming of the RenderMan interface is the incompleteness of the specification and its strong bias towards the REYES rendering architecture [CCC87].
		The RenderMan interface in its current state is certainly not the final word for a general interface to a rendering system, although we believe that it currently is the most flexible and comprehensive interface.
	graphics.cs.uni-sb.de /~slusallek/Doc/html/node13.html (6679 words)

	Digital Artform: Renderman for Maya
		Renderman for Maya is designed to put the production-proven power of Renderman into the hands of the small to medium PC- and Mac-based CG houses.
		No doubt renderman is a powerful rendering system (and more powerful than mental ray in production level tasks) but for a small group like us or a normal user, renderman is probably the worst choice.
		Posted by: Samaursa at December 15, 2005 09:56 AM Renderman for maya is a good render but i still use renderman pro server with rat.
	www.digitalartform.com /archives/2005/04/renderman_for_m.html (1015 words)

	Java Bindings for the RenderMan API
		Based on The RenderMan Interface Spec version 3.1; there are mostly only minor changes to the RenderMan class and support classes (parameter name changes, a few additional routines not documented in the Companion, fixes to errors in the Companion).
		The RenderMan Interface was designed by Pixar to be an interface between modeling applications and renderers in order to allow each to evolve independent of the another (more information about RenderMan is available at The RenderMan Repository).
		However, due to the ubiquity of C and C++, the C binding for the API has become dominant, and the original design of the API was tied closely to C. This binding, a port of the RenderMan API to the cross-platform Java programming language, is primarily a direct transcription of the C binding.
	www.posthorizon.com /RenderMan-java (937 words)

	RenderMan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The RenderMan Interface Specification (RISpec), Pixar's technical specification for a standard communications protocol (or interface) between 3D computer graphics programs and rendering programs.
		PhotoRealistic RenderMan (PRMan) A RenderMan Interface Specification-compliant rendering software system developed by Pixar based on their own interface specification.
		RenderMan is also commonly used to refer to other renderers because of their compliance with the RenderMan standard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RenderMan (142 words)

	Vector RenderMan
		The intent of Vector RenderMan is that it be used as a previewer for PhotoRealistic RenderMan.
		Though it is possible to use vectrman directly, we strongly recommend using the command script render with the -vector flag, which handles all of the niceties of streams and file concatenation required by your operating system before it invokes vectrman.
		Vector RenderMan is not capable of generating a zfile which is used to generate a shadow map.
	graphics.stanford.edu /lab/soft/purgatory/prman/Toolkit/vman.html (1818 words)

	Renderman :: dream.com.ua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		You can be surprised, but my experience with the Renderman itself and the BMRT as the tool is very small.
		I've got a lot of experience in Renderman during all those years, writing the tools, consulting companies and studios and implementing my own projects and experiments.
		Renderman evangelist and frequent speaker on CG summits and conferences (Maya Users Meeting 1999-2000, Computer Graphics Seminaries 2000-2001, ViAGRa (Visual Art and Graphics) 2001-2003 seminaries).
	www.dream.com.ua /rman.html (705 words)

	Next Level Renderman to Release at SIGGRAPH - VFXTalk.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Available later in 2006, RenderMan Studio 1.0 combines the ease of use of RenderMan for Maya with the advanced capabilities of the existing RenderMan Artist Tools, and can be used either standalone or as an interface to render farms using RenderMan Pro Server 13.0.
		RenderMan Studio 1.0 consists of a Pro version of the RenderMan for Maya plug-in with RIB output, plug-in shader functions and procedural geometry support, together with the latest versions of Slim, âitâ and Alfred, along with an embedded RenderMan renderer built into Maya.
		RenderMan is the recognized industry standard for CG feature animation and visual effects rendering and has been used in each of the last 30 movies nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
	www.vfxtalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=6309 (533 words)

	RenderMan Basics
		RenderMan is an Interface between packages which produce geometry, and renderers which turn that geometry into images.
		The RenderMan standard is also very big on "shading", adding surface detail to an object seperate to the geometry.
		RenderMan renderer projects seem to be popular to start, and then the once keen developer discovers its a rather harder slog than they figured.
	www.dctsystems.co.uk /RenderMan/rmanBasics.html (991 words)

	PhotoRealistic RenderMan User's Manual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The RenderMan Interface is currently specified in two forms: the C language binding, which was first published in Version 3.0 of the specification, and the RenderMan Interface Bytestream (RIB) protocol, which appears in Version 3.1.
		The most compact form of the RenderMan Interface Bytestream is a binary encoded version of the human-readable ASCII form, which in turn translates directly to the C language binding.
		Secondly, this map is used by PhotoRealistic RenderMan to determine, during the rendering of a frame, whether a piece of geometry is the closest thing to the light and therefore illuminated, or if something else is closer and thus it is in shadow.
	giga.cps.unizar.es /prman/Toolkit/user.html (10812 words)

	RenderMan
		Currently under development, SLander is runtime system for renderman shaders allowing them to be previewed more rapidly than BMRT or PRman.
		RenderMan allows procedural pritives, where an external program can be called mid-render to generate additional geometry for a scene as it's needed.
		HaRM demonstrates how this can be used to invoke Houdini on the fly, and extract objects from hip files as required by the scene, rather than generating rib code for all primitives a-priori.
	www.dctsystems.co.uk /RenderMan (608 words)

	gustavobraga.com » RenderMan for Maya
		RenderMan Studio is the new version of RenderManProServer/RAT, with all the features, it’s built using the RfM core, so much better integrated with Maya.
		Attending the RenderMan User Group meeting was a pleasure and a good way to know some other users and talk with the RenderMan team.
		The guys talked about RenderMan, what was done last year, the road map to next years and to finish the night the Stupid Rat Tricks.
	gustavobraga.com /english/?cat=9 (3657 words)

	RenderMan 3.7 Release Notes
		The significant changes and enhancements from the previous release of the RenderMan Toolkit are also described, as are the known problems and limitations in terms of the rendering feature set described in the RenderMan Interface Specification Version 3.1.
		PhotoRealistic RenderMan now supports level of detail, which allows automatic shifting between detailed and simplified models based upon their size on the screen.
		A smaller RenderMan Companion Errata document has been prepared for the second printing, which lists only the the substantive errors that have not been corrected in the second printing of the book.
	graphics.stanford.edu /lab/soft/purgatory/prman/Toolkit/rnotes-3.7.html (3767 words)

	cgkit tutorial: Rendering with RenderMan
		For this tutorial, this has to be a RenderMan compliant renderer such as, for example, PRMan, Air, RenderDotC or one of the freely available renderers such as Aqsis, Pixie or 3Delight.
		Additionally, there has to be a C preprocessor (cpp) on your system if you are using the RMMaterial class which is done later in the tutorial (the preprocessor is used to prepare a shader source file for parsing).
		When you create images with cgkit and RenderMan you'll typically use some kind of modeling tool to create your assets and then use Python and the cgkit to manipulate some aspects of your scene or just use the render tool to invoke the renderer.
	cgkit.sourceforge.net /tutorials/renderman/renderman.html (1651 words)

	RenderMania
		The box also needs to be reotated 90 degrees about the X axis to account for different handedness between Max and RenderMan.
		The RenderMan (R) Interface Procedures and RIB Protocol are: Copyright 1988, 1989, Pixar.
		RenderMan (R) is a registered trademark of Pixar.
	www.rendermania.com /HDRI (1575 words)

	CGChannel Forum - View Thread - PixelBox Renderman Academy Press-Release
		The PixelBox RenderMan Academy is a free community devoted to provide support for 3D artists that deal with the most advanced rendering engine, Renderman.
		The PixelBox Renderman Academy consists of a RenderMan forum, that deals with all the questions concerning this application.It also features tutorials and downloads sections, where you can find the most valuable Renderman tools that you can find for free, such as OpenEXR for Renderman.
		We intend to provide the Renderman community with new resources, such as the Portuguese translation of the Renderman FAQ that we are doing, because this is a global community.
	www.cgchannel.com /forum/viewthread?thread=12633 (265 words)

	RenderMan Interface V3.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This document is version 3.1 of the RenderMan Interface Specification of September, 1989.
		Version 3.1 corrects various typographical and syntactic errors, and a small number of semantic errors present in version 3.0; however, there are no fundamental changes to the structure, concepts or compliance requirements.
		No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Pixar.
	giga.cps.unizar.es /prman/RISpec/index.html (294 words)

	RenderMan - K-3D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		RenderMan is a high-level API for describing 3D scenes to render engines, sometimes described as "PostScript" for 3D, see the RenderMan Interface Specification (https://renderman.pixar.com/products/rispec/) by Pixar (http://www.pixar.com).
		There are many implementations of the RenderMan API, see RenderMan Links for a list.
		K-3D interacts with a RenderMan compliant render engine using a RenderManEngine plugin, plus related plugins.
	www.k-3d.org /wiki/RenderMan (82 words)

	RenderDotC - RenderMan compliant photorealistic 3D renderer
		All phenomena that are prone to aliasing artifacts are effectively anti-aliased and noise is kept to a minimum.
		Dozens of modelers, animation systems and plug-ins also adhere to the RenderMan standard and produce output in the RIB format.
		The RenderMan® Interface Procedures and RIB Protocol are: Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1989, 1995 Pixar.
	www.dotcsw.com /rdc.html (577 words)

	3D Renderman FAQ - Games++
		The official RenderMan Interface specification (now at release 3.2) is surprisingly readable for a standard document, but not in any way a tutorial.
		The descriptions are supplied mostly by the authors, and the FAQ maintainers makes no specific claims or guarantees about the features or compatibility of the packages, nor should inclusion in the list imply endorsement of any products (except where noted).
		PRMan is sold by Pixar as the "RenderMan Toolkit" and is available for SGI, Sun, DEC Alpha OSF-1, Linux/Intel, Linux/Alpha, and Windows NT/Intel, all at US$5000 per CPU.
	www.gamespp.com /graphicsprogramming/3DRendermanFaq.html (2393 words)

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