Attendance:

  • Cary Phillips
  • Christina Tempelaar-Lietz
  • John Mertic
  • Joseph Goldstone
  • Kimball Thurston
  • Larry Gritz
  • Nick Porcino
  • Peter Hillman
  • Rod Bogart

Others:

  • Li Ji

Discussion:


  • Cary Phillips
  • Joseph Goldstone
  • Nick Porcino
  • Peter Hillman
  • Li Ji
  • Peter: PR #1595 add deep id/manifest tools and co
    • Need to add reference to Philippe Lafrance as co-author, he wrote the docs as a part of the Weta tools, “how to write Deep nodes.” Was meaning to add the example code generation examples. 
    • Should have a note to the relationship with Cryptomatte. We’re suggesting people switch from Cryptomatte to this.
    • Nuke parses the json every time you move the mouse
  • Nick:
    • Haven’t had time to track down the compression bug in Core
    • Another bug: I didn’t realize how strong the requirement is that the channels be alphabetically ordered. I accidentally shipped a version of the USD where the channels got flopped. 
    • Peter: the file has to have them ordered. 
    • Nick: I thought we just suggest they’re in order
    • Peter: The C++ API requires them to be in order because it uses a  map to store them. The framebuffer mechanism stores them in whatever order but alphabetizes them as you write. 
  • Li:
    • Website builder needs exrheader, but on Windows, it needs exrheader.exe. But really it would be better to convert them images and store them.
    • Peter: two cmake targets, one to do the conversion, then commit the generated files to the repo, then another to build the website.
    • We have a Christmas party next week with local startup studios and media companies in the Vancouver area. Most people don’t know about OpenEXR and ASWF. Is there a publicity slide deck?
    • A local Canadian university professor talked to me about collaborting on projects, they have money they don’t know how to spend. Could the ASWF collaborate?
    • Google scholar search for “openexr”. Lots of examples of academic references to OpenEXR!
    • Nick: invite the authors to the meeting?
    • Peter: or invite them to the email/slack.
    • Peter: Could write a survey paper about usage of OpenEXR
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