# What is BMRT?

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The Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BMRT) are a collection of rendering programs which adhere to the RenderMan(R) interface standard (RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar).

The toolkit consists of a full implementation of the RenderMan standard which supports ray tracing, radiosity, area light sources, texture and environment mapping, programmable shading in the RenderMan Shading Language, true displacements, motion blur, automatic ray cast shadows, CSG, depth of field, support of imager and volume shaders, and other advanced features. The toolkit also contains a quick RIB previewer (using GL) to allow "pencil tests" of scenes and animations.

The toolkit is distributed as binaries for the following platforms:

- SGI running IRIX 6 and up (mips2, mips3, and mips4 available)
- Linux, both Intel and Alpha (FreeBSD, and NetBSD can run the Intel Linux version)
- Sun SPARC (running SunOS or Solaris)
- DEC Alpha (both DEC OSF/1 and Linux/Alpha versions are available)
- Windows 95/98/NT (Intel)

Source code is not distributed. The toolkit comes with full documentation, several example scenes which illustrate the various nonstandard features, and several example shaders.