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This is great. Highly unlikely, but maybe Apple could release some gems from the Shake code base into the Blender compositor?

ur-whale 5y ago
> Apple could release some gems from the Shake code base into the Blender compositor You're assuming they still have a copy of the source code :( I'd love to see some of the Shake feature set make it into Blender: - node-to-code + code-to-node - 2.5D motion blur for transforms - general concatenation of image transforms for single pass resampling. - general C-style code expressions available in any text field of the UI and being able to reference any other variable in the entire UI - ability to call any function from libc / external DSO's directly from any text field in the UI. etc ...
- mathnode 5y ago
  I’d love to take a look at it. Some bigger studios did buy copies of the source for $50k pet-site. It’s probably long gone.
berkut 5y ago
Very unlikely they'd use that code directly - would likely be easier to re-implement the features wanted natively in the blender codebase... On top of that, there were always suspicions that some of the Shake codebase didn't come from perfectly 'legal' origins from an IP perspective in the early days (its API was very similar to something Alias was working on at the time, and became Maya). I've heard rumours that was a reason the people responsible for Shake were never considered for SciTech awards.
- mathnode 5y ago
  That’s disappointing to hear. At least The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, I find, is still a good read.
ink404 5y ago
What is the Shake code base?
- ur-whale 5y ago
  > What is the Shake code base? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_(software)

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This is great. Highly unlikely, but maybe Apple could release some gems from the Shake code base into the Blender compositor?

by mathnode 5y ago

ur-whale 5y ago
> Apple could release some gems from the Shake code base into the Blender compositor You're assuming they still have a copy of the source code :( I'd love to see some of the Shake feature set make it into Blender: - node-to-code + code-to-node - 2.5D motion blur for transforms - general concatenation of image transforms for single pass resampling. - general C-style code expressions available in any text field of the UI and being able to reference any other variable in the entire UI - ability to call any function from libc / external DSO's directly from any text field in the UI. etc ...
- mathnode 5y ago
  I’d love to take a look at it. Some bigger studios did buy copies of the source for $50k pet-site. It’s probably long gone.
berkut 5y ago
Very unlikely they'd use that code directly - would likely be easier to re-implement the features wanted natively in the blender codebase... On top of that, there were always suspicions that some of the Shake codebase didn't come from perfectly 'legal' origins from an IP perspective in the early days (its API was very similar to something Alias was working on at the time, and became Maya). I've heard rumours that was a reason the people responsible for Shake were never considered for SciTech awards.
- mathnode 5y ago
  That’s disappointing to hear. At least The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, I find, is still a good read.
ink404 5y ago
What is the Shake code base?
- ur-whale 5y ago
  > What is the Shake code base? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_(software)