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RenderMan has long been associated with top-end film production and is an essential tool for creating many of the effects and images in recent animated films (such as Final Fantasy, Monsters, Inc., Stuart Little, Pearl Harbour and Dinosaur). RenderMan is widely available and, with the demand for hig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephenson, Ian
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London, 2003.
Series:Brown, Carl, 1946- Essential series.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Computer graphics.
Computer vision.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • What is RenderMan?- Is RenderMan for Me? An Overview of the RenderMan system; What do I need? How to use this book; Part 1: Geometry
  • A Simple Scene; Moving Things Around; Simple Surfaces; Color and other Attributes of Objects; Camera Set-Up; Lighting; The Standard Shaders; More Complex Surfaces; Shadows; Motion blur and Depth Of Field; The C API; Advanced Surfaces; Particles and Hair; Part 2: Shading
  • My first Shader; Lighting Models; Colour Ramps; Simple Patterns; Tiling and Repeating Patterns; Projections and Coordinate Spaces; Texture Maps; Displacement; Noise; Aliasing; Shading Models; Other kinds of Shader; Appendices
  • Appendix A: Geometry Types; Appendix B: SL Global Variables; Appendix C: Production Notes; Bibliography
  • Index.