uad1077@dircon.uucp (Ian D. Kemmish) (01/11/91)
I've just seen a posting in comp.graphics from someone who apparently works at Pixar. I'm assuming he has started reading the newsgroup since this summer. Since Pixar don't seem to answer letters, and their UK representative doesn't seem to return phone calls, could he PLEASE PLEASE find some answers to the two points below. 1) What is Pixar's attitude towards licensing the technology embodied in its patent regarding jittered sampling/stochastic ray-tracing or whatever you want to call it. I do things differently now, and in any case the Monte Carlo people claim to have been using the same technique on the same integral for many years, but when I first raised the question in the summer, I got a lot of worried email from people using this technique not knowing it was patented. Please set these people's minds at rest. 2) The rubric in the Renderperson books mentions a licence that lets me write a compatible renderer (in my case just a file translator, in fact). I know of two large companies who apparently have this licence, and a lot of small guys whoses letters to Pixar have apparently disappeared. I have been trying to get this piece of paper for 11 months now, and quite frankly I am getting a bit fed up. Can you give me a real person's name and phone extension to talk to? Many thanks for your co-operation in this matter. -- Ian D. Kemmish Tel. +44 767 601 361 18 Durham Close uad1077@dircon.UUCP Biggleswade ukc!dircon!uad1077 Beds SG18 8HZ United Kingd uad1077%dircon@ukc.ac.uk