Online Documentation and Tools

Renderman^® (Pixar Corp)

• An excellent course on writing RIB files, from Brazil.
• Documentation of the Renderman 3.1 Interface.
• Documentation of RIB file format (Renderman ascii format).
• The Renderman 3.8 Toolkit documentation.
• A gallery of Renderman/BMRT shaders.

BRMT (Blue Moon Rendering Tools)

• The BMRT home page.
• BMRT online documentation.

Editors/Modelers for VRML and RIB

• sPatch is a Windows (95 or NT) splines editor that outputs VRML and RIB files.
• Sced is a  constraint-based modeler for Unix (most varieties especially Linux) developed by Steve Chenney at Berkeley. Also outputs VRML and RIB files.

VRML97 (formerly VRML 2.0)

• VRML97 specification including the node reference and Java scripting reference.
• A VRML97 Tutorial.
• The VRML examples from the VRML 2.0 Sourcebook.
• The VRML repository.
• The VRWave home page.
• VRML Editing Mode for emacs (needed for home use only)

Java^® Language (Sun Microsystems)

• Java Language Specification.
• Main Java documentation repository.
• The Java 1.1 main documentation page and core API Specification.
• Download Sun Microsystem's JDK 1.1.6 (about 9MB).
• Download Microsoft's SDK for Java V 3.1.
• Recommended books:
  • "Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals" by Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Prentice-Hall
  • "Late Night Vrml 2.0 With Java" by Bernie Roehl (Editor), Ziff-Davis Press
    

Javascript^® (Netscape Communications)

• The Javascript guide.
• A Javascript reference manual.