Application Notes

**Interface**
Class Specifiers for PrimVars Options & Attributes	PRMan for Python The Viewing Transformation

**Pipeline**
Baking 3D Textures Deep Compositing Interpreting Frame Statistics Multithreading Optimized Rendering	Re-rendering Per-face Textures Shader Profiling & Diagnostics Statistics Diagnostics XML Frame Statistics

**Geometry**
Blobby Implicit Surfaces The Brick Map Geometric Primitive Hierarchical Subdivision Surfaces Maya Fluid Cache Implicits Procedural Primitives The RiCurves Primitive	The RiPoints Primitive Segment Blob Implicits The Subdivision Mesh Primitive Using Level of Detail Volume Rendering

**Display**
Advanced Camera Modeling Arbitrary Output Variables	Fractional Matte Objects Multi-Camera Rendering

**Shading**
Basic Shader Antialiasing Cellnoise Factoring Lights and Surfaces Filter Regions Imager Shaders The Importance of Importance Physically Plausible Shading in RSL Properties of Noise Functions RSL 2.0 Shading Guidelines Ray-Traced Shading	Refinement Method Shader Objects and Co-Shaders Shading Language Features (1997) Smooth Derivatives Stratified Sampling Structs in RSL Tuning Scenes for Combined Shading Using Displacement Shaders Writing Atmosphere Shaders

**Illumination**
Area Shadowing Caustics Global Illumination Image-Based Relighting Making Shadows	Photon Mapping for General Shaders Point-Based Occlusion & Color Bleeding Simulating Reflections Soft Shadows Translucency and Subsurface Scattering

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