Rendering with Mental Ray

By: Thomas Driemeyer, T. Driemeyer

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Paperback | 18 November 2005 | Edition Number 3

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648 Pages

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27.94 x 21.59 x 2.54

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Written by the mental rayr software project leader, this book offers basic reference and step-by-step recipes for beginners and advanced users alike. Advanced user topics include scene construction, light and shadow, motion blur and contours. Also included are tips for quality and performance tuning, and troubleshooting techniques. Comprehensive definitions of mental ray's scene description language and the standard shader libraries are included as the basis for all examples. The third edition is completely revised to cover version 3.4 of mental ray. Includes a CD with a fully functional demo version of the software, together with example scene data and shaders used described in the book.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Graphical & Digital Media Applications Computer Science Image Processing Computer Programming & Software Development Programming & Scripting Languages Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision

Introduction
Overview
Scene Construction
Cameras
Surface Shading
Light and Shadow
Volume Rendering
Caustics and Global Illumination
Motion Blur
Hardware Rendering
Contours
Shaders and Phenomena
Postprocessing and Image Output
Geometric Objects
Instancing and Grouping
Inheritance
Incremental Changes and Animations
Using and Creating Shader Libraries
Parallelism
The Options Block
The Architecture of mental ray 3.x
Quality and Performance Tuning
Troubleshooting
Color Plates
Command Line Options
The Sphere and Utah Teapot Models
Base Shaders
Physics Shaders
Contour Shaders
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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