Essential Guide to RenderMan® Shading Plugin Development Understanding Bxdfs

Understand the fundamentals of Bxdf plugins for RenderMan® 21+, both the technical details and API architecture. The main goal of the book is to enable technical artists, hobbyists, and students in using the noncommercial (NCR), free RenderMan® edition. RenderMan® is an industry standard for renderi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hollister, Brad E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA Apress 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Overview, Brief Contextual History, and Pixar's Non-Commercial RenderMan
  • Chapter 2: What RenderMan Plugins Are Made Of: C++ Language and Shared Object Files
  • Chapter 3: Radiometry and Bi-Directional Scattering Functions
  • Chapter 4: Monte Carlo integration and Global Integrators
  • Chapter 5: The RenderMan (Rix) API
  • Chapter 6: Canonical Scattering Regimes for Bxdf
  • Chapter 7: Developing and Debugging Bxdf
  • Chapter 8: PDF Normalization, Sampling, and Anisotropic Bxdf
  • Conclusion