Contents

1. Introduction
2. Making RIB with libribout.a
3. Wireframe Previews with rendribv
   (rendribv is no longer part of BMRT -- use "rgl -lines" instead)
4. Previewing with rgl
   • Image Generation and File Options
   • Previewing Animations
   • Geometric Approximation
   • Limitations of rgl
5. Photorealistic Rendering with rendrib
   • Command line switches
   • Nonstandard options
   • Nonstandard attributes
   • Nonstandard Shading Language features
   • Global Illumination
   • Optimizing Render Time
   • Limitations of rendrib
   • Incompatibilities with PRMan
6. Shading Language Compiler, slc
7. Miscellaneous Tools and Goodies
   • Parsing shader arguments with libslcargs
   • Using slctell to list shader arguments
   • Simple Image Compositing with composite
   • Making tiled TIFF files with mkmip
   • Setting default options and attributes
   • farm: Poor Man's Render Farm
   • References
8. Using BMRT as a "ray server" for PRMan

This document last updated 19 Sep 98 by lg@bmrt.org

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