Ken Museth
Nick Avramoussis
ABSTRACT
This course will cover the compact volume data structure and various tools available in the open source library OpenVDB. Since its release in 2012 it has set an industry standard and has been used for visual effects in over 150 feature movies. Last year this open source project was the first to be adopted by the new Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) and the Linux Foundation. This means that the project is now changing governance and more importantly has open up for numerous external contributions. We will describe this new governance, specifically what it means for would-be contributors, and of course what has already been added to the project since last time this course was offered at SIGGRAPH in 2017.
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