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February 2003 Meeting

Our February 2003 meeting was held at:

7 PM on Tuesday the 25th of February 2003
eCentral TAFE
140 Royal St
East Perth

Nicholas Yue from Immersive Technologies gave a great introduction to Renderman. Renderman is a rendering system that plugs into many modelling packages and allows photorealistic, device-independent image rendering. It gives users the ability to create custom shaders, giving great control over lighting and shading. Pixar's version of Renderman, PRMan, has been used by many production houses, including ILM, Digital Domain, Disney, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Tippet, and others. A large number of the feature films requiring CGI in recent years have been produced using Renderman.

Nicholas will be presenting more detailed description of how to use various aspects of Renderman in talks at subsequent meetings. If you have topics you'd like him to cover, post an article in the discussion section of the online community.

Nicholas has kindly provided a list of the links and other resources he mentioned during his talk:

http://www.renderman.org
http://www.rendermania.org
http://www.animallogic.com/research/ (SoftMan, MaxMan & MayaMan)
http://www.td-grafik.de/softw/lightman.php3 (LightMan)
http://users.tpg.com.au/tmyue (MasteRMan)
http://www.dream.com.ua/thetool.html (ShaderMan)
http://www.cinemagraphics.com (ShaderTree)
http://www.darksim.com (DarkSim)
http://www.pixar.com (PRMan)
http://www.sitexgraphics.com (AIR)
http://www.dotcsw.com (RenderDotC)
http://www.3delight.com (3Delight)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aqsis (Aqsis)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/liquidmaya (Free plug-in for Maya)
http://cmpa.ca.scad.edu/faculty/kesson/Ca301/ (tutorials and Cutter application)

The RenderMan Companion(Steve Upstill)
Advanced RenderMan (Larry Gritz & Tony Apocado)
SIGGRAPH course notes (see RenderMan.org for details)

As usual, after the meeting, some of us went to Basil Leaves, a nearby Thai restaurant for a meal.

February News

2003-02-15: The Graphite 2003 conference in Melbourne was a great success. SIGGRAPH Perth was well-represented in the list of attendees.

2003-02-13: We were going to be drafting the constitution, but the impending formation of ANZGRAPH may save us a great deal of paperwork. We'll wait for a couple of weeks until ANZGRAPH's constitution is clearer before moving forward.

Credits

Thanks to the Department of Computing at Curtin University of Technology for hosting our web site. Thanks also to Andrew Squelch and eCentral/IVEC for providing a regular venue for our meetings and helping us prepare. Our gratitude also goes to our speakers and the people behind the scenes who help to organise the meetings.