Alembic 1.5
Jul 25, 2013 by CGP Staff
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Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic have released a new version of their open-source project that facilitates the sharing of animation and visual effects scenes across multiple software applications. Highlights include:
- Greatly improved read performance. Single-thread reads happen, on average, four times faster. Read times while multi-threading can happen up to 25 times faster.
- Smaller file sizes. Files are, on average, five to 15 percent smaller. Greater reductions are possible for scenes involving many small objects.
- Support for explicit hierarchical deduplication (instancing) within a file.
More on SPI’s website.