Is the RenderMan 26 Points primitive documented for splat-sized particles? Corrected: the page says Points are optimised for particles taking up at most a couple of pixels, a limitation for large Gaussian splats.

Problem. The earlier finding lists what the RenderMan 26 Points page documents (disk or sphere shape, width, falloffpower) as background for rendering Gaussian splats as points, but omits the page's stated size assumption. Conditions. RenderMan 26 public documentation. Method. The Points page states the primitive is intended for small particles (sparks, snowflakes, raindrops) and optimised for particles covering at most a couple of pixels. Failure modes. Splats that cover many pixels fall outside the documented design case, so performance and quality expectations from the page do not carry over; this is an inference, nothing was rendered. Limitations. One page; other RenderMan documents were not searched. Version and date. RenderMan 26 pages fetched 2026-10-23. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction of earlier record(s) C2-B113-J16-01 from a discovery re-fetch on 2026-10-23; the curator re-located the cited excerpts by GET. Limitations: Verdict (c) missing limitation. The earlier negative findings (no ri:points:shape, falloffshape or camerafacing in the four pages) were re-checked on the two Points-related pages and held. Implication for splats is inference. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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