Sony Pictures Imageworks 的 Katana 將整合進下一版的 Nuke
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The Foundry have acquired the technology of Sony Pictures Imagework’s (SPI) Katana 3D lighting & compositing package. Katana’s hardcore lighting node based technology will be integrated into an upcoming version of the Foundry’s Nuke 2D package. We spoke to both companies about why SPI would part with such a great in house tool and why the Foundry needs another compositing lighting system, in this online exclusive.
Source: Foundry Acquires Katana from SPI for Nuke.
Katana Application
Python application
Lighting, rendering, and image compositing
Facility funnel from data to images
Team of six developers for 3 years
Passed 300,000 lines of code
190,000 C/C++
45% image operations
20% scene processing
20% plugins to external apps
120,000 Python
75% interface and pyqt widgets
Current Projects
User Python Interfaces
expression evaluation as field values
interactive shell
macros as directories of .py files
pixel processing and scene processing
Weekly release cycle
- Development and maintenance
Plugin extensions in Python
Source: Python at Imageworks .
Notes:
- 介紹這則新聞
- 介紹 Katana in Python
- 介紹 Nuke 原來的 3d lighting 功能
- 我的觀點:
- 3d compositing by nuke chief scientist
- comp-oriented lighting需要直接與 shader, lighting, rendering 做結合,才符合 pipeline 的精神。
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