Here are links to documents, course notes, books, etc.
Here are links to documents, course notes, books, etc.
The RenderMan Shading Language Guide is the first-ever book devoted to the shading language ("RSL"). Also, Production Rendering offers excellent insight into *writing* production-quality renderers.
Here is a handy way to order these from Amazon:
The official word on RenderMan.
An excellent approach to shader writing, using layers to synthesize appearances.