"Disney Open Source" summarizing Disney's open source project



Walt Disney Company is creating a lot of entertainment content that can entertain children's to adults, such as movie production and theme park management. Speaking of Disney like that, the first thing that comes to mind is Mickey Mouse, but "Tool" to create "content" such as Mickey Mouse has also developed its own thing, some are free as open source project There are many things that are open to the public. The summary of such an open source project by Disney is "Disney Open Source"is.

Disney Open Source
http://disney.github.io/

◆ 1: OpenSubdiv
Open source software created by Pixar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney, is "OpenSubdiv", which is also Pixar's first open source software. Open sourceSubdivision surfaceIt is software which converts the shape of the created 3D model into a smoother planar configuration.

You can find out more about what software is "OpenSubdiv" by reading the following page.

4Gamer.net - [SIGGRAPH] Pixar, "OpenSubdiv" opens the tessellation technique of Catmull-Clark method. From DCC tool to game engine to Pixar quality?


◆ 2: Universal Scene Description
Universal Scene Description (USD) belongs to a fairly new category among Disney's open source software. USD is also open source software from Pixar, which is software that allows you to work between multiple digital content creation tools.

Introduction to USD


◆ 3: munki
"Munki" repository tool for web server based package and package metadata. It is open source software that can manage the software installation of macOS (OS X) client which is OS for Mac.

When Mac OSX increases to companies. General-purpose software updater · munki MOONGIFT


◆ 4: OpenEXR
Disney's affiliateIndustrial Light & Magic(ILM) developed raster format is "OpenEXR". It is a format widely used in the CG industry such as VFX and CG animation.

OpenEXR - Wikipedia


◆ 5: Reposado
"Reposado" is a macOS server software update service written in Python.

GitHub - wdas / reposado: Host Apple Software Updates on the hardware and OS of your choice.


◆ 6: jss-api-gem
The Ruby framework for interacting with the REST API of the JAMF software server is "jss-api-gem".

Ruby-jss


◆ 7: SeExpr
The open source expression language library is "SeExpr".

The following pages are written in detail about SeExpr.

About SeExpr, and that - memlog


◆ 8: Alembic
The file sharing format of the open source CG scene developed by Sony Pictures Image Works and ILM is "Alembic".

SPI and ILM jointly develop the scene file sharing format "Alembic" | Special Feature | CGWORLD.jp


◆ 9: Ptex
"Ptex" is an open source texture mapping software that enables production level rendering.

Walt Disney opens source texture mapping "Ptex" | OSDN Magazine


◆ 10: Partio
"Partio" is an open source library for reading and writing standard particle format GEO / BGEO / PTC / PDB / PDA etc.

Walt Disney Animation Studios


◆ 11: Dynamica
The plugin for Maya is "Dynamica", the physical operation engineBulletIt is software to supply.

Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.


◆ 12: BRDF Explorer
An open source application that develops and analyzes bidirectional reflection distribution function (BRDF) is "BRDF Explorer".

You can find out details on what you can do with BRDF Explorer by reading the following page.

Borndigital's blog: Disney announces open source 'BRDF Explorer' - livedoor Blog (blog)

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