[dba-Tech] A major Pixar release

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi All:

A Pixar Graphics has made a major Open Source release less than a week ago. USD is the most powerful animation generating application ever released to the public. See the following video describing the product:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ikzGQW0ys&feature=youtu.be

...and the application can be viewed with help and documentation: 

http://graphics.pixar.com/ 
http://graphics.pixar.com/usd/docs/index.html

and directly via Github: (press button near top right, labeled "Clone or download"

https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD

The products must be downloaded and compiled. It requires a 64bit system and as much memory as you can throw at it. It has been fully tested on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 (Redhat Enterprise Linux version 7) but will run on Debian distros like Ubuntu etc. The application libraries and processing dependencies are as follow: (Note all the required Operation Systems, the libraries and other dependencies are Open Source)

C++ compiler GCC 4.8, Clang 3.5, MSVC 14.0(VS 2015)
C compiler GCC 4.8, Clang 3.5, MSVC 14.0(VS 2015)
CMake 2.8.8
Python 2.7.5
Boost 1.55
OpenEXR 	2.2.0
DoubleConversion 1.1.1
Intel TBB 4.3.1
OpenSubdiv 3.0.5
GLEW 1.10.0
OpenImageIO 1.5.11
Ptex 2.0.30
Qt 4.8.0
Pyside 1.2.2

...So before attempting downloading and compiling the above apps should be already installed.

The USB runs fine on Linux but is still experimental on iOS and Windows.

Jim