Disney Open Source

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Post by craigkerstiens » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 8:37 PM UTC

Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by Pulce » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:23 PM UTC

Good. I have downloaded and viewed a lot of WD movies with torrents (I'm a near homeless man in Italy, no money to buy/rent DVD). Now I can give back something contributing to the open source project.

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Post by agentgt » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:30 PM UTC

I was expecting to see some Squeak links (OSS Smalltalk) but I guess no one at Disney is using it now? I think it was the Go.com group ala Alan Kay that was doing something with it internally (I'll need to do some googling but it appears the group moved to ycombinator according to wikipedia... my memory sucks).

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Post by smegel » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:43 PM UTC

They make light-hearted animations, but their software looks seriously hardcore.

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Post by alexkavon » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

Can't wait for the Mickey Mouse repo in 2024.

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Post by yazaddaruvala » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:56 PM UTC

Just an FYI: Always be careful!

I opened up a couple of these repos and some seem to have modifications on their licenses.

Some like OpenEXR say "BSD" but don't actually have a license file.

Others like, Ptex and Partio, have no mention of a license at all.

Edit: For anyone wondering why this is an issue. From a legal standpoint, there is a huge difference between being able to read the code, and being able to use the code.

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Post by curiouscat321 » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:59 PM UTC

I hope Disney does more of this! They're a tech company in a lot of ways. I believe they're using Rails for their site (which would make it amongst the biggest Rails sites in the world) and I hope they release some Rails stuff too!

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Post by lima » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:09 PM UTC

OpenSubdiv is a game changer in FOSS 3d software.

Blender is already using it: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.7...

Demo: https://youtu.be/dzIl_S-qHIQ?t=115

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Post by shredwheat » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:18 PM UTC

This is a showcase of larger open source projects used in the visual effects and animation industry. Several of them are contributed to by Disney engineers, but most people would not consider these Disney projects. Disney has open sourced and released some impressive open source projects over the years, and it's exciting to see their endorsement on these others.

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Post by santaclaus » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:18 PM UTC

Super cool! I'd be curious to see what bits of software here are from WDAS vs ILM vs Pixar.