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Locki · 12th July 2007, 09:23

As regard Renderman, like PoVRay, it's a standalone renderer. There are free implementations, the most famous one was Larry Gritz's BMRT (Larry undertook his PhD at Pixar) before he was sued by Pixar for copying algorithms used in Renderman. IMHO, at that period BMRT was the only Renderman compatible free development; it was then spinned of as a cheap commercial product through Larry's new society exLuna, and some societies started to use it to develop commercial products (some sequences from the film " the new invisible Man" were made with it), which irritated Pixar. ExLuna and its technology were then bought by NVidia.

Since that time a completely new free Renderman implementation is being developped starting right from the RIB format specifications publicly published by Pixar (https://renderman.pixar.com/products/rispec/) : AQSIS. You can find it here : http://www.aqsis.org/.

12th July 2007, 09:23	#16 (permalink)
Locki 3D zingué Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: 3ème planète après Sol, au fond du couloir, à droite Posts: 2,135	As regard Renderman, like PoVRay, it's a standalone renderer. There are free implementations, the most famous one was Larry Gritz's BMRT (Larry undertook his PhD at Pixar) before he was sued by Pixar for copying algorithms used in Renderman. IMHO, at that period BMRT was the only Renderman compatible free development; it was then spinned of as a cheap commercial product through Larry's new society exLuna, and some societies started to use it to develop commercial products (some sequences from the film " the new invisible Man" were made with it), which irritated Pixar. ExLuna and its technology were then bought by NVidia. Since that time a completely new free Renderman implementation is being developped starting right from the RIB format specifications publicly published by Pixar (https://renderman.pixar.com/products/rispec/) : AQSIS. You can find it here : http://www.aqsis.org/. __________________ cherche le Nord depuis de nombreuses années. Pour le moment je suis encore à l'Ouest. Last edited by Locki; 12th July 2007 at 09:38.