Conference hydra::amiga_v1

1642.0. "SIGGRAPH Boston September Meeting" by NAC::PLOUFF (Beautiful downtown Littleton) Wed Aug 31 1988 18:11

    Of interest to Amiga image renderers in Massachusetts:
    
    SIGGRAPH/NE September Meeting, 7:30 PM, Wednesday, Sept. 7.
    BBN Inc., 70 Fawcett St, Cambridge, MA
    
    		"Renderman:  The Pathway to Photorealism"
    
    Many people feel that current graphics standards have failed to
    address modern customer demands for higher quality graphics,
    workstation tools and improved modelling of surface characteristics
    in a coherent way.  In response, Pixar, arguably the world leader
    in computer generated "photorealism," has proposed Renderman as
    a proven standard 3-d scene description interface.  The intent of
    current Renderman software development is to make "photorealism"
    available on all graphics workstations.  A Pixar II computer will
    be available for this demonstration.
    
    This presentation will be given by Thomas Porter, Director of Advanced
    Technology for Pixar Inc.  [Porter] spent five years on the computer
    graphics research staff of Lucasfilm, where he developed the
    algorithmic research that lead to the Pixar Image Computer, and
    headed up the hardware research team.
    
    {SIGGRAPH/NE newsletter, Sept. 88}
    
    [Pixar is the company whose demo film Leo Schwab imitated on Amy
    -- see the demo "The Dream Goes Berserk."  ACM SIGGRAPH seems to
    be a friendly bunch, although their idea of a graphics workstation
    is well beyond the Amiga in price and capabilities.]