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A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 6 comments · first 2016-09-11 · latest 2023-04-16

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  1. for more reading, the submission from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13567594 It is MIT: https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/blob/master/LICENSE...
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    Ask HN: Good open-source software documentation examples
    story by oktomus · 2020-04-07 · 8 comments
  3. To me that would be Appleseed rendering engine. https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed Even though I can't code C++, I can read it here and understand most of it (besides the maths).
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    Appleseed 1.8.0-beta
    story by franzb · 2017-11-28 · 1 comment
  5. …quite a lot of work done. You can check the release notes to see precisely what has been improved. https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/tags
  6. …since late 2015 as well, and it looks like the 1.7.x beta is just around the corner[3]. [0] https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/commit/8b0bb02112f7... [1] http://www.anderslanglands.com/alshaders/index.html [2]…
  7. "Improving" is kind of a strong statement. See for example this recent PR: https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/pull/1217/files . It seems like they just keep adding and removing special cases, so there's code churn but not really…
  8. …https://vimeo.com/92172277 This month we're planning on starting the volume rendering subsystem ( https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/projects/1 ) and, if time allows, investigate switching to Intel's Embree ray tracing kernels [3].…
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    Appleseed renderer release 1.5.0-beta
    story by Narann · 2016-09-11 · 1 comment