{"id":723,"date":"2010-01-12T20:57:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2010-01-12T20:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:57:04","slug":"sony-pictures-imageworks-open-source-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/sony-pictures-imageworks-open-source-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures Imageworks open source projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/hpg-2009-report\/\">my HPG 2009 report<\/a>, I mentioned that Sony Pictures Imageworks was releasing several of their projects as open source, most notably a shading language, OSL, tailored to ray-tracing. For a long time, there was no actual information available on OSL, but now (tipped off by <a href=\"http:\/\/ompf.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=8&amp;t=1398&amp;start=0#p16978\">a recent ompf post<\/a>) I see that some has appeared.<\/p>\n<p>OSL is hosted on Google Code, the main page is <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/openshadinglanguage\/\">here<\/a>, and an introductory document can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/openshadinglanguage\/wiki\/OSL_Introduction\">here<\/a>. The language has several features that seem well-designed for ray-tracing; someone with more knowledge in this area will have to weigh in on its usefulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my HPG 2009 report, I mentioned that Sony Pictures Imageworks was releasing several of their projects as open source, most notably a shading language, OSL, tailored to ray-tracing. For a long time, there was no actual information available on OSL, but now (tipped off by a recent ompf post) I see that some has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[298,296,297],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-open-source","tag-osl","tag-sony-pictures-imageworks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}