Pixar and DreamWorks announce the release fore their open source high performance subdivision surface libraries, OpenSibDiv 3. The latest release is a major release with many significant improvements and changes which “takes a bold step forward with a near complete rewrite of the library, greatly improving performance and simplifying the API”.
The rewrite for OpenSubDiv greatly simplifies the GPU shader architecture, and advances the screen-space adaptive tessellation making it easier to add to any existing rendering architectures. This will be a huge improvement for digital content creators and game engines.
OpenSibDiv 3 Features:
- Faster subdivision using less memory
- Support for non-manifold topology
- Face-Varying data specified topologically
- Elimination of fixed valence tables
- Single-crease patch for semi-sharp edges
- Additional irregular patch approximations
- Introduction of Stencil Tables
- Faster, simpler GPU kernels
- Unified adaptive shaders
- Updated coding style with namespaces
- More documentation and tutorials
To learn more about OpenSubDiv 3, check out the documentation for OpenSubDiv 3 here.
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