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.
