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RenderMan Interface Specification

Known as: RISpec, RenderMan, RenderMan Interface 
The RenderMan Interface Specification, or RISpec in short, is an open API developed by Pixar Animation Studios to describe three-dimensional scenes… 
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2013
2013
Correlated Multi-Jittered Sampling
Image synthesis techniques requiringMonteCarlo integration frequentlyneed to generate uniformly distributed samples within the… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Feature-adaptive GPU rendering of Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces
We present a novel method for high-performance GPU-based rendering of Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces. Unlike previous methods… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Whole-function vectorization
Data-parallel programming languages are an important component in today's parallel computing landscape. Among those are domain… 
2007
2007
The RenderMan Shading Language Guide
Part 1 - RSL Fundamentals Chapter 1 - Introduction to RSL and RenderMan Chapter 2 - RSL Details Chapter 3 - Shader Writing… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
"Building Workload Characterization Tools with Valgrind"
Summary form only given. Workload characterization relies heavily on robust and powerful tools to quickly and accurately gather… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Ray Tracing for the Movie `Cars'
This paper describes how we extended Pixar's RenderMan renderer with ray tracing abilities. In order to ray trace highly complex… 
2003
2003
Implementing RenderMan on the Sony PS2
As graphics hardware increases in power, driven by low cost consumer level products, there is an inevitable blurring between real… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
A Generic Rendering System
Describes the software architecture of a rendering system that follows a pragmatic approach to integrating and bundling the power… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Computer graphics and virtual environments - from realism to real-time
PART 1 INTRODUCTION: PERCEPTION, LIGHT, COLOUR AND MATH1 Introduction: A Phantom World of Projections Introduction Scope Modeling… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Sampling procedural shaders using affine arithmetic
Procedural shaders have become popular tools for describing surface reflectance functions and other material properties. In… 
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