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Found the coffee cup.

BMRT coffee (by Horvatth Szabolcs) vs. "nVidia coffee

Given the news that nVidia bought Exluna, I suppose it IS possible that they rendered from original data. Hmph.

I'd appreciate it if they fessed up and reported that they make a RenderMan renderer. I actually think that's bigger news than their exact hardware specs. It means "One interface to rule them all..."

Sorry, here's ALL the evidence that I found :

BMRT chess (by John Monos) vs. "nVidia chess"

BMRT Bike (by Don Kim) vs. "nVidia Bike"

BMRT Table (by Goran Kocov) vs. "nVidia Table"

BMRT Markers (by Rudy Poat) vs. "nVidia Markers"

I believe I've pretty definitively shown that either they have an actual RenderMan renderer running on their hardware (and access to the original data by four different authors), or this is a fake.

Sorry, I can't find the coffee cup or the Final Fantasy image. Maybe someone else can.

Sorry, here's ALL the evidence that I found :

BMRT chess (by John Monos) vs. "nVidia chess"

BMRT Bike (by Don Kim) vs. "nVidia Bike"

BMRT Table (by Goran Kocov) vs. "nVidia Table"

BMRT Markers (by Rudy Poat) vs. "nVidia Markers"

I believe I've pretty definitively shown that either they have an actual RenderMan renderer running on their hardware (and access to the original data by four different authors), or this is a fake.

Sorry, I can't find the coffee cup or the Final Fantasy image. Maybe someone else can.

Sorry, here's ALL the evidence that I found :

BMRT chess (by John Monos) vs. "nVidia chess"

BMRT Bike (by Don Kim) vs. "nVidia Bike"

BMRT Table (by Goran Kocov) vs. "nVidia Table"

BMRT Markers (by Rudy Poat) vs. "nVidia Markers"

I believe I've pretty definitively shown that either they have an actual RenderMan renderer running on their hardware (and access to the original data by four different authors), or this is a fake.

Sorry, I can't find the coffee cup or the Final Fantasy image. Maybe someone else can.

Sorry, here's ALL the evidence that I found :

BMRT chess (by John Monos) vs. "nVidia chess"

BMRT Bike (by Don Kim) vs. "nVidia Bike"

BMRT Table (by Goran Kocov) vs. "nVidia Table"

BMRT Markers (by Rudy Poat) vs. "nVidia Markers"

I believe I've pretty definitively shown that either they have an actual RenderMan renderer running on their hardware (and access to the original data by four different authors), or this is a fake.

Sorry, I can't find the coffee cup or the Final Fantasy image. Maybe someone else can.

Given this "nVidia rendered image" and this BMRT rendered image, I see three possibilities.

One - the guys at nVidia painstakingly translated each aspect of the original image to Cg.

Two - the guys at nVidia have some technology that translates RenderMan to something they know how to render. It could be RenderMonkey-like technology. It could literally be RenderMonkey, with some nVidia back-end. It could be they contacted the original artist, John Monos, and took his original data and reformatted it (skipping RenderMan, entirely).

Three - the images are a forgery.

I'm betting on Three.

here.

http://www.webbschool.com/~psyiode/page3.htm.

I have thrown up a stripped down mirror of the 3rd page here.