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Rendering with mental ray® /

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mental ray is the leading rendering engine for generating photorealistic images, built into many 3D graphics applications. This book, written by the mental ray software project leader, gives a general introduction into rendering with mental ray, as well as step-by-step recipes for creating advanced...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Driemeyer, Th. (Thomas)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2000.
Series:Mental ray handbooks ; 1.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Software engineering.
Computer graphics.
Computer vision.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Overview
  • Scene Construction
  • Cameras
  • Surface Shading
  • Light and Shadow
  • Volume Rendering
  • Caustics and Global Illumination
  • Motion Blur
  • Contours
  • Shaders and Phenomena
  • Postprocessing and Image Output
  • Geometric Objects
  • Instancing and Grouping
  • Inheritance
  • Incremental Changes and Animations
  • Using and Creating Shader Libraries
  • Parallelism
  • The Options Block
  • Quality and Performance Tuning
  • Troubleshooting
  • Color Plates: Command Line Options; The Sphere and Utah Teapot Models; Base Shaders; Physics Shaders; Contour Shaders
  • Glossary.