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wisdom@geom.umn.edu writes:
> Does anyone know if this  
> is a problem with tiff images generated by all versions of non-NeXT  
> PhotoRealistic Renderman (we are using sgi renderman 3.1)?

Actually, it's a problem with the NeXT version of the "Pixar Developer's  
RenderMan Toolkit" as well.

Of course, since this toolkit costs $2500 and you only get sources for the  
shaders and some image manipulation tools and some libraries you really don't  
need too much on the NeXT (and of course the older version of the prman  
renderer), most NeXT owners probably aren't going to buy the toolkit.

Here's hoping someone writes a nice conversion app to display these images.   
Actually, I'd love to petition Pixar to release their RenderApp into the public  
domain, since I have a modified version of it that allows you to cut and save  
good NeXT TIFFs.  (But since the sources are Pixar's I can't share it.)

BTW, for those of you with access to the Pixar Toolkit, RenderApp does work  
with the version of RenderMan bundled with 3.0.  Phew.

-W