The Walt Disney Animation Studios has just added two new software tools to their open-source offerings. The first is a new tool called ‘Reposado’ that will probably appeal more to your Systems Admins than your graphics guys:
Reposado is a set of tools written in Python that replicate the key functionality of Mac OS X Server’s Software Update Service. Reposado, together with the “curl” binary tool and a web server such as Apache 2, enables you to host a local Apple Software Update Server on any hardware and OS of your choice. Reposado is licensed under the new BSD license.
Second is a new tool called ‘SeExpr’:
SeExpr is a simple expression language that we use to provide artistic control and customization to our core software. We use it for procedural geometry synthesis, image synthesis, simulation control, and much more.
It looks very much in the “Made for Engineers by Engineers” stages, but could be a great tool to use with massive geometry & object instancing systems.
