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Contents:

• Introduction
  • why follow a methodology?
  • the layered approach
• Surface Shaders, Part I
  • variables
  • layers and compositing
• Surface Shaders, Part II
  • illumination
  • heterogeneous illumination
• Displacement Shaders
  • variables
  • layers, compositing, displacement
  • dealing with smooth-shaded polygons

In depth topics located in separate sections:

• Regular Patterns
• Stochastic Patterns

The file rmannotes.sl is required to compile most of the shaders in RManNotes. It defines several convenience functions such as pulse and repeat.

Last Modified: 5/7/96