Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: SHAREWARE: BMRT - A full shareware implementation of the Renderman(R) standard Message-ID: <3uqocl$6ga@kruuna.helsinki.fi> From: Christopher Kline Date: 22 Jul 1995 14:45:25 +0300 Reply-To: ckline@acm.org Sender: wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Organization: ? Keywords: Renderman, raytracing radiosity RIB rendering, graphics, 3d, Larry Gritz, Blue Mooon Rendering Tools Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius) NNTP-Posting-Host: kruuna.helsinki.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 54 I haven't seen this announced on c.o.l.a. before and couldn't find it in the LSM, so forgive me if I'm being redundant. The Blue Moon Rendering Tools toolkit is available from: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/student/gritz/bmrt.html Binaries are available for SGI running IRIX 4.0.5 and 5.2 HP 9000 8xx/7xx running HP-UX NEXTSTEP (HP, Motorola, and Intel) IBM RS/6000 (AIX 3.2) Linux (i386/486/Pentium) Sun SPARC (this one has a broken SL compiler) Here's some information from the BMRT homepage: --- The Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BMRT) are a collection of rendering programs which adhere to the RenderMan(R) interface standard (RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar). The toolkit consists of a full implementation of the RenderMan standard which supports ray tracing, radiosity, area light sources, texture and environment mapping, programmable shading in the RenderMan Shading Language, motion blur, automatic ray cast shadows, CSG, depth of field, support of imager and volume shaders, and other advanced features. The toolkit also contains quick RIB previewers (using GL or X11) to allow "pencil tests" of scenes and animations. The BMRT is being distributed as shareware. Feel free to grab a copy for evaluation. If you like it and continue to use it, a "donation" is requested. In exchange, this makes you a registered user, which means that you will be informed of bugs and updates, get some support, etc. It's all outlined in the License file that comes with the distribution. --- BMRT is maintained by Larry Gritz (lg@pixar.com). I am in NO way associated with Larry Gritz or BMRT. I just think the package is incredible and wanted to tell people about it. -- Chris Kline -- Send comp.os.linux.announce submissions to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember Keywords: and a short description of the software.