Archives for posts with tag: compositing

OpenFX

September 21, 10 //

OpenFX is an open standard for visual effects plug-ins. It allows plug-ins written to the standard to work on any application that supports the standard. This avoids the current per application fragmentation of plug-in development and support, which causes much heartache to everyone, plug-in developers, application developers and end users alike

The core aims of OpenFX were established early on, these are…

  • to develop a standard for writing visual effects plug-ins,
  • to develop that standard with a broad consensus within the industry,
  • have that standard be vendor and operating system neutral,
  • have that standard be sufficiently flexible that it supports a wide range of visual effects systems, from editors to compositors.

Subsidiary aims are,

  • have the standard be expandable to other areas in the future, for example sound plug-ins or image i/o plug-ins,
  • have any expansion of the standard be done in such a manner so that hosts can easily support plug-ins using differerent versions of the API,
  • have plug-ins written to the standard be tunable to the host system they are running on,
  • allow hosts to provide extra custom functionality to plugins that wish to use it.

Home Page: http://openfx.sourceforge.net/
Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfx/
Language: c++
Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows
License: BSD
Sponsor: The Foundry, Autodesk, Gen-Arts, FilmLight, Assimilate, Re-Vision Effects

RmanConnect

January 7, 10 //

A RenderMan Interface-compatible display driver and Nuke plugin for direct rendering into the Nuke interface.  RmanConnect is based on a simple Client/Server model, suitable for rendering to/from a variety of applications. The TCP/IP interface code is handled using the Boost.Asio library. The display driver will theoretically build using any RenderMan-compatible renderer but the included CMake build script assumes you have 3Delight installed.

Home Page: http://danbethell.github.com/rmanconnect/
Project Page: http://github.com/danbethell/rmanconnect
License: New BSD

Imagemagick

January 6, 10 //

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.  Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

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Home Page: http://www.imagemagick.org/
Language: C with API's provided for C++ and Perl
Platform: Windows, Linux, OSX
License: Custom open source license that requires attribution. Free for commercial use. GPL compatible.

pyShake

January 3, 10 //

pyshake is a project to integrate the Python scripting language with the Shake compositing package. It is based on boost::python and uses Py++ for generating the bindings.

pyshake is being developed by Rising Sun Pictures.

Home Page: http://open.rsp.com.au
Project Page: http://open.rsp.com.au/projects/pyshake
Language: C++
Platform: Linux, Windows, OS X
License: LGPLv2.1.
Sponsor: Rising Sun Pictures