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RenderMan Images from New Zealand

The rendered images shown below in the left column were made by displacing one or two spheres - in some cases a square polygon formed a ground plane. The images on the right are a selection of the displacement, texture and transparency maps used to render the spheres.

The images were produced in 1995 by students of graphic design at the School of Design, Wellington Polytechnic in New Zealand. They are excellent examples of what Pixar calls "separating shape from shading". They are a powerful reminder that even minimal geometry, carefully rendered using a variety of mapping techniques, can produce visually sophisticated results.

Hand written RIB files, prepared using MicroSoft Word, were rendered with MacRenderMan using 80mhz PowerPC's (24MB ram). I am indebted to Pixar for making a pre-release version of their renderer available to us for my student projects.