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I joined Apple in the summer of 2013, as part of Graphics, with a mandate of improving game related technologies, and professional production workflows.

ModelIO was started early 2014, and introduced at WWDC 2015. It's purpose was to introduce 3d asset IO, analogously to ImageIO providing import and export of a large variety of 3d file formats. Due to various concerns including ongoing negotiations with Autodesk, FBX was not part of the release.

ModelIO also contained a suite of pipeline related tools, in-memory scene organization tools, geometry transformations, and bakers of various kind such as automated distortion minimizing UV mapping, occlusion baking, and so on.

What ModelIO did not have was collaborative editing, large scale scene management, and notions of asset composition such as template assets, attribute overrides, asset variations, and the like.

Having architected the content creation pipeine at LucasArts for a decade, and from having worked as a developer and architect on ILM's proprietar

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#import "NSImage+MTLTexture.h"
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <Metal/MTLDevice.h>
#import <Accelerate/Accelerate.h>

@implementation NSImage(MTLTexture)

// ref: https://gist.github.com/cbirkhold/52bfdcfd2db7777b64b8
// The original gist bore the MIT license

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Objective C

reference [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26660287/how-to-embed-python-in-an-objective-c-os-x-application-for-plugins] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26660287/how-to-embed-python-in-an-objective-c-os-x-application-for-plugins

download the source tarball desired from Python.org

Create a build directory with no spaces, because #! don't work with space, /Users/me/Projects/PythonHost

extract the python tarball resulting in e.g. /Users/me/Projects/PythonHost/Python-3.7.7

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kernel void
nearestKernel(texture2d<float, access::read>  inTexture  [[texture(AAPLTextureIndexInput)]],
              texture2d<float, access::write> outTexture [[texture(AAPLTextureIndexOutput)]],
              constant ResizeParams &resizeParams [[buffer(0)]],
              uint2 gid [[thread_position_in_grid]])
{
    int input_width = inTexture.get_width();
    int input_height = inTexture.get_height();
    float origin_aspect = float(input_width) / float(input_height);
    

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#!/bin/sh

## setup _________________________________

TMUX_VER=2.9a
LIBEVENT_VER=2.1.11-stable
TEMP_COMPILE=~/tmux-temp-compile
COMMON_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt
SYMLINK=/usr/local/bin/tmux

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#!/bin/sh

## setup _________________________________

TMUX_VER=2.9a
LIBEVENT_VER=2.1.11-stable
TEMP_COMPILE=~/tmux-temp-compile
COMMON_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt
SYMLINK=/usr/local/bin/tmux

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTDF94CU5wc --- set up for hard surface modeling LoopTools, TinyCAD and 3D Print Toolbox are packaged with Blender.

Hardops 00984: Thulium https://blendermarket.com/products/hardopsofficial

BoxCutter https://blendermarket.com/products/boxcutter

Machin3Tools

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• Knuth on GOTO http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/knuth.dec74.html

• cool lisp editor written in clojure https://github.com/illiichi/orenolisp/tree/master/src/orenolisp

• bgfx clustered renderer https://github.com/pezcode/Cluster

• https://github.com/Gforcex/OpenGraphic

• Apple's USDZ schemas https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/usdz_schemas_for_ar

• https://github.com/leapmotion/ProjectNorthStar

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Siggraph Highlights

A Deep Dive into Universal Scene Description and Hydra

Universal Scene Description has enjoyed a huge uptick in support, due to integration in DCC apps such as Houdini, and Apple building the RealityKit pipeline around it.

Hydra offers a render abstraction that allows evaluating many renderers

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# release monolithic
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ..\..\src\USD -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\build\usd-install -DPXR_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DPXR_BUILD_IMAGING=OFF -DPXR_BUILD_USD_IMAGING=OFF -DPXR_BUILD_USDVIEW=OFF -DPXR_ENABLE_GL_SUPPORT=OFF -DPXR_ENABLE_PYTHON_SUPPORT=OFF -DPXR_ENABLE_HDF5_SUPPORT=OFF -DPXR_ENABLE_PTEX_SUPPORT=OFF -DPXR_BUILD_MONOLITHIC=ON -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH="c:\src\third-party\tbb\tbb_2018.2.185\x64-windows;c:\src\third-party\boost\boost_1.66\windows-vs2017;c:\src\third-party\boost\boost_1.66\windows-vs2017\lib\Win64" -DBoost_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_LIBRARY=c:\src\third-party\boost\boost_1.66\windows-vs2017\lib\Win64\libboost_program_options-vc150-mt-x64-1_66.lib -DBoost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON

# simplified release monolithic
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ..\meshula-USD -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\projects\install\
  -DPXR_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DPXR_BUILD_IMAGING=OFF -DPXR_BUILD_USD_IMAGING=OFF -DPXR_BUILD_USDVIEW=OFF\
  -DPXR_ENABLE_GL_SUPPORT=OFF -DPXR_ENABLE_PYTHON_SUPPORT=OFF -DPXR_ENABL