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Stupid RenderMan Tricks 2008

Pixar is looking for submissions for this years Stupid RenderMan Tricks:

This year’s SIGGRAPH RenderMan User’s Group meeting will be on Wednesday 13th, 2008. It’s now time to submit something for the 10th annual Stupid RenderMan Trick. The deadline for a Stupid RenderMan Trick is July 17th.

If you have a submission to consider send it to: stupidrattricks@pixar.com with the subject Stupid RenderMan Trick, a few paragraphs describing the trick and images, code snippets, etc. If ther is a large amount of material they would prefer a location to a web site with the material.

NOTE: Invitations to the User’s Group meeting will be mailed out to Pixar customers at a later time. Do not try to RSVP until you have received the invitation.

To get the ball rolling – and as I cannot fufill one of the criteria ie. being at the User Group Meeting – here is my Stupid RenderMan Trick.

People often equate a render farm to the Unix printing program LPR. However I couldn’t find anyone who had actually done it so I decided to build a renderfarm using CUPS (the updated version of LPR). All the details and code is available for download. Any comments will be gratefully received!

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3 Responses to “Stupid RenderMan Tricks 2008”

  1. Temujin Says:
    July 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 am

    You get my vote for Stupid RAT Trick of the year, and,
    “Blow Linux Users’ Minds With How Obviously Easy A Low Cost RenderFarm Can Be”
    of the millennium award :)

  2. Temujin Says:
    August 9th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Addendum – How to build a global renderfarm with CUPs and carrier pidgeons :

    http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

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