Essential RenderMan (R) (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2007)

General Overview.- What Is Renderman?.- Is Renderman For Me?.- An Overview Of The Renderman System.- What Do I Need?.- How To Use This Book.- Geometry.- A Simple Scene.- Moving Things Around.- Simple Surfaces.- Color And Other Attributes Of Objects.- Camera Setup.- Lighting.- The Standard Surface Types.- More Complex Surfaces.- Shadows.- Motion Blur And Depth Of Field.- The C Api.- Particles And Hair.- Shading.- My First Shader.- Lighting Models.- Color Ramps.- Simple Patterns.- Tiling And Repeating Patterns.- Projections And Coordinate Spaces.- Painted Textures.- Displacement.- Noise.- Aliasing.- Shading Models.- Other Kinds Of Shader.- Global Illumination.