Rendering related links

Renderers

Renderman compliant
  • Commercial
  • Closed source
    • Gelato is freely available but is now unsupported. Nvidia chose to stop development when the company purchased Mental Images Inc.
    • BMRT was the first free raytracing based implementation of the RenderMan Interface. It is now discontinued (look here for more information) but you can still find copies floating on the Internet.
    • Siren is the predecessor of AIR
    • RenderAnts is the first RenderMan implementation that runs entirely on GPUs. Source code is free to the research community.
  • Open Source
Other noteworthy projects

CourseWare

A number of courses have been using RenderMan for assignments


Books

  • Steve Upstill: The RenderMan Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics, Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-50868-0 (book examples available here)

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  • Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz: Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN: 1-55860-618-1 (book examples available here)

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  • Ian Stephenson: Essential RenderMan Fast, Springer, ISBN: 1-85233-608-0 (book examples available here)
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2nd edition
  • Ian Stephenson: Production Rendering, Springer, ISBN: 978-1-85233-821-3

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  • Saty Raghavachary: Rendering for Beginners: Image synthesis using RenderMan, Focal Press, ISBN: 0-240-51935-3 (companion website)

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  • Rudy Cortes, Saty Raghavachary: The RenderMan Shading Language Guide, Course Technology PTR, 1st edition (December 27, 2007), ISBN: 1-598-63286-8 (companion website)

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  • Matt Pharr, Malcolm Humphreys: Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN: 978-0-12-553180-1 (companion website)

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  • Matt Pharr, Malcolm Humphreys: Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition: From Theory To Implementation, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN: 978-0-12-375079-2 (companion website)

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  • David Ebert, F. Kenton Musgrave, Darwyn Peachey, Ken Perlin, Steve Worley: Texturing & Modeling: A Procedural Approach, 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN: 978-1558608481 (book examples available here)
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3rd edition
  • Magnus Wrenninge: Production Volume Rendering: design and implementation, A K Peters/CRC Press, ISBN: 978-1568817248 (companion website)

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See also


Tools

Miscellaneous tools that output RIB file format

  • Ayam — a scene modeler
  • XFrog — a plant generator (Public plants available here)
  • Cutter — a full-featured text editor geared towards graphics with lots of tutorial information
  • City Engine — a urban 3D environment generator (free export samples available here)
  • Mosaic — a Blender plugin for RIB exporting

Benchmarks

  • SPD — Standard Procedural Databases
  • BART — a Benchmark for Animated Ray Tracing

Copyrights & Trademarks

  • RenderMan® is a registered trademark of Pixar.
  • XRT is RenderMan compliant in that it reads RenderMan RIB files and implements the RenderMan API. The RenderMan® Interface Procedures and Protocol are: Copyright 1988, 1989, 2000, 2005 Pixar All Rights Reserved.