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A recent open-source innovation in the CGI industry is known as Universal Scene Description (USD). It is originally derived from Alembic, and thereby inherits many of its geometry descriptors and functions. The The added benefits of USD includes methods to further organize and reference structures to increase functionality. USD is rapidly becoming a standard method of data interchange between various application platforms. As well, USD is helping to conform disparate workflows among disciplines by creating a singular source of truth in the data model. There is a unique opportunity to leverage these considerations to unify the Camera and its constituent dependencies. Applications that are leveraging USD will be able to pick up the Camera attributes directly, using inherent workflows. The cascade of interpretive pipeline dependencies on proprietary Camera rigs would be obsolesced.
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