Rendering related links
Renderers
Renderman compliant
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CourseWare
- Pixar's RenderMan university
A number of courses have been using RenderMan for assignments
- BYU CS 655 Advanced Computer Graphics
- UC Berkeley CS 184 1998
- ACCAD (Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design)
- SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design)
- NCCA (National Centre for Computer Animation) at Bournemouth University
- Linköpings University Procedural Shading Course (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
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)
- Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz: Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN: 1-55860-618-1 (book examples available here)
- Ian Stephenson: Essential RenderMan Fast, Springer, ISBN: 1-85233-608-0 (book examples available here)
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- Ian Stephenson: Production Rendering, Springer, ISBN: 978-1-85233-821-3
- Saty Raghavachary: Rendering for Beginners: Image synthesis using RenderMan, Focal Press, ISBN: 0-240-51935-3 (companion website)
- Rudy Cortes, Saty Raghavachary: The RenderMan Shading Language Guide, Course Technology PTR, 1st edition (December 27, 2007), ISBN: 1-598-63286-8 (companion website)
- Matt Pharr, Malcolm Humphreys: Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN: 978-0-12-553180-1 (companion website)
- Matt Pharr, Malcolm Humphreys: Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition: From Theory To Implementation, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN: 978-0-12-375079-2 (companion website)
- 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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- Magnus Wrenninge: Production Volume Rendering: design and implementation, A K Peters/CRC Press, ISBN: 978-1568817248 (companion website)
See also
- Pixar RenderMan Interface Specification is available here
- Siggraph RenderMan courses are available at the RenderMan Repository
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
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.