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RenderMan Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer GraphicsOctober 1989
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- Steve Upstill
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RenderMan is a powerful 3-D scene description interface designed by Pixar for use in computer graphics. RenderMan provides widespread access to the technology for creating world-class synthetic imagery, originally developed for movies and special effects. This is the guidebook on RenderMan, authored by its developers.
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