Essential RenderMan fast.

Ian Stephenson

ISBN 10: 1852336080 / ISBN 13: 9781852336080

Editore: London Springer Verlag, 2003

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Gebraucht - Gut Zustand: Gut, Mängelexemplar, XII, 316 p. About this book: Essential RenderMan fast provides a practical introduction to producing images using a RenderMan renderer, enabling the novice user to get the most from RenderMan. By developing an understanding of how scenes are described, animators and technical directors of all abilities can gain access to the power of RenderMan, which has previously been available to the elite of the CG community. With plenty of illustrations and hands-on examples, the author looks at the creation of geometry using RIB, and the C API. He also includes an introduction to shading and the generation of procedural textures using the RenderMan shading language. -Delivers a hands-on introduction to the RenderMan toolset, including reference to currently available implementations. -It is a practical guide to driving RenderMan using RIB, C, and other packages. -Provides tutorials in shading for the novice programmer and animator looking to explore RenderMan further than is possible using GUI based tools. -Includes many examples and plenty of illustrations, 16 of which are in full colour. -Source code is available to readers online. -Relevant text for courses on Computer graphics and animation. Written for 2nd / 3rd year undergraduates, novice programmers.

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• Titolo: Essential RenderMan fast.
• Editore: London Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1852336080
• ISBN 13: 9781852336080
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Condizione: Gut

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Riassunto

RenderMan has long been associated with top-end film production and is an essential tool for creating many of the effects and images in recent animated films (such as Final Fantasy, Monsters, Inc. , Stuart Little, Pearl Harbour and Dinosaur). RenderMan is widely available and, with the demand for higher quality images, is now used by computer-based artists at all levels of the graphics industry. Essential RenderMan fast is a practical introduction to producing images using a RenderMan renderer, and getting the most from RenderMan. You will gain access to the power of RenderMan, which has previously only been available to the elite of the Computer Graphics community! With plenty of illustrations and hands-on examples, Ian Stephenson: gives an overview of RenderMan. - explains how scenes are described. - illustrates (among other things) how to create surfaces; colour; lighting; shadows; and depth of field, using RIB and the C API. - introduces the techniques involved in creating and applying textures and shading. Additional material is available from the Essential series website: http://www essential-series. com

Contenuti

What is RenderMan?- Is RenderMan for Me? An Overview of the RenderMan system; What do I need? How to use this book; Part 1: Geometry.- A Simple Scene; Moving Things Around; Simple Surfaces; Color and other Attributes of Objects; Camera Set-Up; Lighting; The Standard Shaders; More Complex Surfaces; Shadows; Motion blur and Depth Of Field; The C API; Advanced Surfaces; Particles and Hair; Part 2: Shading.- My first Shader; Lighting Models; Colour Ramps; Simple Patterns; Tiling and Repeating Patterns; Projections and Coordinate Spaces; Texture Maps; Displacement; Noise; Aliasing; Shading Models; Other kinds of Shader; Appendices.- Appendix A: Geometry Types; Appendix B: SL Global Variables; Appendix C: Production Notes; Bibliography.- Index.