Procedural Shading - Resources

Lecture Notes, Etc.

• My slides.
  Course password required for access.

• Downloadable RenderMan^®installer files.
  To use RenderMan, you want the RenderMan Pro Server, not the RenderMan Studio.
  Password required for access..
  

Textbooks

• Randi J. Rost and Bill Licea-Kane, OpenGL Shading Language, Addison Wesley, 2010

• Anothony A. Apodaca and Larry Gritz, Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, Morgan Kauffman, 2000

• Alan Watt and Fabio Policarpo, Advanced Game Development with Programmable Graphics Hardware, A K Peters, 2005

Resources, Sample Code, etc.

• Stefan Gustavson's simplex noise package
  • Gustavson's distribution
  • GLSL-noise.zip (a local copy of the basic distribution)
  • simplexnoise.pdf (a local copy of Gustavson's explanatory paper)

Other Useful Books

General

• Rudy Cortes and Saty Raghavachary, The RenderMan Shading Language Guide, Thomson, 2008; companion web site

• Mike Bailey and Steve Cunningham, Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice, second edition, A K Peters, 2011

Online Copies of the GPU Gems Series

• Randima Fernando, GPU Gems, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004

• Matt Pharr and Randima Fernando, GPU Gems 2, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005

• Hubert Nguyen, GPU Gems 3, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007

Rendering Tools

Commercial RenderMan Implementations

• Pixar's RenderMan implementation, prman
  • prman is available on the machines in ICL5 and ICL6
  • Useful web sites:
    • Pixar's RenderMan Interface Specification
    • The RenderMan Repository (www.renderman.org)
    • Pixar's RenderMan University (lots of example images, "How To" documents, etc.)
  • References:
    • Steve Upstil, The RenderMan Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics, Addison-Wesley, 1990
    • Anthony A. Apocodaca and Larry Gritz, Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, Morgan Kaufman, 2000
    • Rudy Cortes and Saty Raghavachary, The RenderMan Shading Language Guide, Thomson, 2008
    • Ian Stephenson, Essential RenderMan fast, Springer 2003
• 3delight
  • The 3delight home page

Open Source RenderMan Implementations

• AQSIS
  • The AQSIS home page
  • The AQSIS Wiki
• Pixie
  • The Pixie home page
  • The Pixie Wiki
• jrMan
  • Not as far along as the others - several features not yet implemented
  • The jrMan home page

3D APIs

OpenGL

• Cross-platform standard for 3D rendering and 3D hardware acceleration.
• Runtime library ships with all Windows, MacOS, Linux and Unix systems.
• Current version: 4.3 (2012)
• Web site: http://www.opengl.org/
• References:
  • Donald Hearn, M. Pauline Baker, and Warren Carithers, Computer Graphics With OpenGL, 4th Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2011
  • F.S. Hill, Jr, Computer Graphics Using OpenGL, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2001
  • Dave Shreiner, OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 3.0 and 3.1, 7th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2010
  • Richard Wright, Nicholas Haemel, Graham M. Sellers, and Benjamin Lipchak, OpenGL SuperBible, 5th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2011
  • Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner, Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with Shader-Based OpenGL, 6th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2012
  • Edward Angel, OpenGL: A Primer, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2008
• Other documentation:
  • Creating Real Time 3D Graphics With OpenGL(O'Reilly)
  • OpenGL Rendering and Drawing(O'Reilly)
  • Preparing to Build an OpenGL Application(O'Reilly)
  • CS320 @ Goucher College

Real Time Shading Languages

GLSL

• Realtime shading language component of OpenGL
• Multiple types of shaders: vertex, fragment, geometry, tessellation, compute
• Current version: 4.30 (2012)
• References:
  • Randi J. Rost and Bill Licea-Kane, OpenGL Shading Language, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2010

Cg

• Realtime shading language created by nVidia
• Originally proposed as the standard shading language for OpenGL 2.0
• Works with both OpenGL and DirectX
• Web site: http://developer.nvidia.com/
• References
  • Randima Fernando and Mark Kilgard, The Cg Tutorial: The Definitive Guide to Programmable Real-Time Graphics, Addison-Wesley, 2003.

Animation, Modeling, Interactive

Maya®

• Integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering tool
• Available free for non-commercial use as the Maya® Personal Learning Edition
• Web site: http://www.autodesk.com/maya
• References:
  • Darius Derakhshani, Introducing Maya® 7: 3D for Beginners, Wiley, 2005
  • Marc-Andre Guindon, Learning Maya® 7: Foundation, Sybex, 2005
  • John Kundert-Gibbs, Dariush Derakhshani, Eric Kunzendorf, Boaz Livny, Mick Larkins, Mastering Maya® 7, Wiley, 2005

Blender

• Open source 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation & playback
• Available under the GPL for "all major operating systems"
• Web site: http://www.blender.org/

3ds Max®

• Animation, modeling, skinning tools
• Commercial (list price $3495, as of 2005/11/30); 30-day free trial available
• Web site: http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmax/

AC3D^TM

• 3D modeling tool
• Available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
• Commercial (personal license $79.95, as of 2010/02/28); 14-day free trial available
• Web site: http://www.inivis.com/

Miscellaneous 3D Graphics Links

• Ultimate 3D Links
• Mayang's 3D textures site