Pixar
- RenderMan Interface Spec, preface
This document is the official technical specification for the RenderMan Interface. It is quite terse and requires substantial prior knowledge of computer graphics in general and photorealistic image synthesis in particular. For a more casual reference to the RenderMan Interface, the reader is directed to "Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures" (Anthony Apodaca and Larry Gritz, 1999).
China Miéville
- Perdido Street Station
With the passage of the sun, the air over New Crobuzon slowly thickened. The light was thick and yellow as corn-oil. Aerostats swam through that solar grease, eddying back and forth across the urban geography in a weird half-random motion.
China Miéville
- Peridido Street Station
The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments. Birds and wyrmen lingered in the sky like particles of filth in water.
