I'm the editor of the Chip Hall of Fame: if you follow the link in the citation where Pixar/Toy Story is mentioned, it takes you to a whole Spectrum feature ab

I'm the editor of the Chip Hall of Fame: if you follow the link in the citation where Pixar/Toy Story is mentioned, it takes you to a whole Spectrum feature about the development of Renderman :) But this article was intended to be tightly focused on the creation of the NV20, and how it enabled real time shaders, so I didn't have room to do more than mention Pixar in passing!