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SHAREWARE: BMRT - A full shareware implementation of the Renderman(R) standard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Jul 23 02:20:09 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 14:45:28 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: Christopher Kline <ckline@TC.Cornell.EDU>
Reply-To: ckline@acm.org
Subject: SHAREWARE: BMRT - A full shareware implementation of the Renderman(R) standard
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
Keywords: Renderman, raytracing radiosity RIB rendering, graphics, 3d, Larry Gritz, Blue Mooon Rendering Tools
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:
<a href="http://www.seas.gwu.edu/student/gritz/bmrt.html">http://www.seas.gwu.edu/student/gritz/bmrt.html</a>
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:
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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 <A
HREF="http:License.html">License</A> 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
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