The name RenderMan can cause confusion because it has been used to refer to different things developed by Pixar Animation Studios: RenderMan Interface...

and the render engine that generates the final high quality images. In the past RenderMan used the Reyes Rendering Architecture. The Renderman standard...

The RenderMan Interface Specification, or RISpec in short, is an open API developed by Pixar Animation Studios to describe three-dimensional scenes and...

Renderman Shading Language (abbreviated RSL) is a component of the RenderMan Interface Specification, and is used to define shaders. The language syntax...

Deformation shaders transform the entire space. Only one RenderMan implementation, the AIR renderer by SiTex Graphics, implemented this shader type, supporting...

RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 1-55860-618-1 REYES, Primitives & Some Philosophy Welcome to Renderman:...

the context of shaders written in the RenderMan Shading Language (RSL) for use with RenderMan-compliant renderers. User-defined functions written in RSL...

feature films, technologically powered by RenderMan, the company's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification image-rendering...

processing. Houdini is bundled with a production-class renderer, Mantra, which had many similarities to RenderMan in its scope and application in its initial incarnation...

"shader" was introduced to the public by Pixar with version 3.0 of their RenderMan Interface Specification, originally published in May 1988. As graphics...