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Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

dang wrote: post #20

Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.

Seems to me that there is no shortage of better names available.

It's so easy to fix... why not call it, say, a "Universal Scene Description Package" (USDP) or a "3D Scene Description" (3DSD) or "Layered Universal Scene Description" (LUSD) or "Modern Scene Description Format" (MSDF) or "Universal Scene Description Format" (USDF) or "Kronos Scene Description" (KSD) or "Kronos Universal Scene Description" (KUSD) or...

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by CodeCompost »

zgluck wrote: post #6

Something I've always wondered about: All of these alliances for this and that format/standard/whatever - do they end up hiring some secretarial staff in some office for several decades? There should be several hundreds active corporate alliances now.

Doesn't the Linux Foundation take care of all that?

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by khazhoux »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #24
dang wrote: post #20

Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.

> For people complaining about the name, USD has been already a thing publicly since at least 2013 As opposed to the United States dollar that became public after 2013? I mean, seriously: OpenUSD sounds like a cryptocurrency "stablecoin" token name.

Literally no one who uses USD as part of their work gets tripped up by this.

It’s ok for jargon and acronyms to be confusing to people who are not at all in the field.

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by avmich »

Seen Autodesk here, which might - or might not - mean that the standard is also applicable for 3D engineering artifacts. However I see no explicit mention of this in the article by the link. Can this standard be well used for, say, designing a model for a 3D printer?

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by epolanski »

I see lots of off topic comments, but I'd like to ask as someone who played with fbx and similar formats supported by Autodesk and large parts of the gaming/CG industry what does OpenUSD provides exactly over different formats.

I feel like there's never been a 3D counterpart to standards like Midi for audio.

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