Download or read book Writing mental ray® Shaders written by Andy Kopra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-05 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing number of artists and programmers in visual effects and broadcast production now use mental ray, a high performance rendering engine for generating photorealistic images. This book details the aesthetics of rendering with mental ray. It describes the varieties of shader programming from the point of view of increasing perceptual complexity: from color to the output of the final image. It includes many example shaders, including the simplest shader possible in each category that can serve as a starting point for further customization.