eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (09/07/89)
I am posting this for friends. Please reply to them by phone if you are interested in this. Phone and mail orders for books can be taken. Do not reply to this account. --enm The following has been endorsed by Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH (J.G.) ============================================================== Tuesday, September 19, 1989 Computer Literacy Bookshops (tm) invite you to meet Steve Upstill author of The RenderMan(tm) Companion 6:30-8:30 PM September 19, 1989 Computer Literacy Bookshops (tm) 2590 N. 1st Stree, San Jose, CA (408)-435-1118 ^^^^^^^^^ The RenderMan Companion by Steve Upstill, Pixar RenderMan is a powerful 3-D scene description interface designed by Pixar for use in computer graphics. Render Man 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. The RenderMan Companion provides the reader with the information necessary to start generating impressive images that convincingly mimic actual photography. Programmers and graphics researchers with some expertise in the concepts of three-dimensional computer graphics will find this book valuable reading. Users of computer-aided design systems in fields such as architecture, automobile styling, product design, and animation, interested in achieving the best visual quality, will also find this book both fascinating and practical. Steve Upstill received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been with Pixar since its founding ... and is a practioner of three-dimensional computer graphics and a user of the RenderMan interface. Pixar, located in San Rafael, California, was formed by Dr. Ed Catmull and Dr. Alvy Ray Smith to provide visual solutions. In March 1989 Pixar was award an Academy Award in the Best Animated Short Film category for their film, "Tin Toy," which was computing using Pixar's rendering systems implementing the RenderMan interface. Through RenderMan, Pixar is committed to providing accessibility to photorealism on the desktop. The RenderMan Companion was published in August 1989 by Addison-Wesley Publishing, Company, Inc.