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Re: Renderman references (the QRM spec)

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From: William Shipley
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 11:24
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Daryll Strauss writes:
> Both of these are slightly out of date with respect to RenderMan on the
> NeXT. Pixar, and others, are defining a spec for RenderMan 4.0. The NeXT
> implementation seems to be a preliminary version of the RenderMan 4.0
> spec. I don't know where you can get details on the new additions, I
> hope that the 3.0 final documentation includes them. 

Check the release notes, there is a draft copy of the Quick RenderMan spec,  
which includes operators that I assume will also be in RenderMan 4.0.

Note that lots of the QRM ops will ONLY work in Quick RenderMan (for instance,  
the circle and line ops), so if you print documents using them you'll lose 'em.

-William Shipley
The Omni Group
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From: wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu (William Shipley)
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