Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures

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Contents:

• Forward
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Photosurrealism
• Chapter 2: Review of Math and CG Concepts
• Chapter 3: Describing Models
• Chapter 4: Geometric Primitives
• Chapter 5: Handling Complexity
• Chapter 6: How PhotoRealistic RenderMan Works
• Chapter 7: Introduction to Shading Language
• Chapter 8: Texture Mapping and Displacement
• Chapter 9: Illumination Models and Lights
• Chapter 10: Pattern Generation
• Chapter 11: Shader Antialiasing
• Chapter 12: A Gallery of Procedural Shaders
• Chapter 13: Storytelling Through Lighting, A Computer Graphics Perspective
• Chapter 14: Lighting Controls for Computer Cinematography
• Chapter 15: Volumetric Shaders for Visual Effects
• Chapter 16: Nonphotorealistic Rendering
• Chapter 17: Ray Tracing in PRMan (with a little help from BMRT
• Afterword
• Glossary
• Index