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OpenFX

Philippe Leprince — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:56:17 +0000

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

Cinepaint

Philippe Leprince — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:09:00 +0000

CinePaint is a deep paint image retouching tool that supports higher color fidelity than ordinary painting tools available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows.

Support for 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit color channels of deep paint.
High fidelity image file types such as DPX, OpenEXR and 16-bit TIFF.
High Dynamic Range.
Onion-skinning.
Flipbook. Movie playback of short sequences of images in RAM.
Color Management System. CinePaint uses LittleCMS.
Gallery-quality printing. B&W photographs have only one color channel and degrade quickly when manipulated as 8-bit images. CinePaint has higher fidelity and offers a 16-bit printing path to the print-head using GutenPrint.

Home Page: http://www.cinepaint.org/
Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cinepaint/
Language: C
Platform: Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

RmanConnect

Larry Gritz — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:09:54 +0000

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