Disney Releases 3D Texture Mapper Source Code

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Disney Releases 3D Texture Mapper Source Code

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @07:52AM from the nice-of-them dept.

dsavi writes "Ptex, Walt Disney Animation Studio's cutting-edge 3D texture mapping library which was first used on nearly every surface in the 2008 animated feature Bolt, was released under the BSD license on Friday. Quoting the announcement on monophyl.com: 'We expect to follow Ptex with other open source projects that we hope the community will find beneficial. We will soon be launching a new Walt Disney Animation Studios Technology page under disneyanimation.com. It will include links to our open source projects as will as a library of recent publications.' This looks good for open source 3D graphics."

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Didn't see that one coming.... by santax · 2010-01-20 07:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

Chapeau Walt Disney! This is just plain cool and I would have never expected Disney to open up anything! Hope they will set and continue this trend!
1. Re:Didn't see that one coming.... by jimbolauski · 2010-01-20 07:58 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Get it while you can they open the vault for a limited time.
  
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2. Re:Didn't see that one coming.... by ceoyoyo · 2010-01-20 08:03 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Remember that Pixar bought Disney for minus a jillion dollars a while ago.
3. Re:Didn't see that one coming.... by iluvcapra · 2010-01-20 08:48 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  That they gave away a little to gain a lot of it.
  
  Wasn't that how it was supposed to work? Maybe Bruce Perens can back me up on this, but I thought Open Source was supposed to be good for profits and business.
  
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4. Re:Didn't see that one coming.... by serbanp · 2010-01-20 08:55 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Knowledge = Work / Money
  Solve for Money:
  Knowledge = Work / Money
  # Multiply both sides by Work
  Work * Knowledge = Work / Money * Work
  # Work / Money * Work = Money, so:
  Work * Knowledge = Money
  -OR-
  Money = Work * Knowledge
  don't you wish slashdot had a "remove my comment" feature? now you're stuck with this very embarrassing post (brain fart or lack of caffeine?) :-)
Re:Look the other way by ChienAndalu · 2010-01-20 08:24 · Score: 4, Insightful

Even if it's fun to imagine that, a company isn't a monolithic entity and certainly not a person like you are trying to picture.
Thank new CTO at Disney, Greg Brandeau by Thagg · 2010-01-20 08:36 · Score: 5, Interesting

Greg Brandeau, the new CTO at Disney, is a powerful advocate of open source. He worked very hard (within the bounds of antitrust law) to help various visual effects and animation studios with Linux, addressing common issues to everybody's benefit. It's good to see projects like this, that studios have put huge amounts of effort into, released into the open source community.
Of course, I have to put my money where my mouth is now :)

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Video of the system in use by yakumo.unr · 2010-01-20 08:42 · Score: 3, Interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxNlAlOuQQQ
That's a really nice system, I hope it can be adopted into other packages as a plugin or something as it stays under the BSD license.
Re:Look the other way by girlintraining · 2010-01-20 08:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Why? Because This. Is. Slashdoooooot! And as long as you make us laugh or give us a target, we'll overlook all your other sins. :>

I think you meant overrate all my other sins. Or at least, that's what usually happens around here. :\

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