T E C H N O L O G Y L I B R A R I E S
Our teams have the unique opportunity to work on problems and datasets unavailable anywhere else in the world, all the while collaborating with the best of academia and publishing their work
Open USD
USD is a high-performance extensible software platform for collaboratively constructing animated 3D scenes, designed to meet the needs of large-scale film and visual effects production.
Open SubDiv
OpenSubdiv is a set of open source libraries that implement high performance subdivision surface (subdiv) evaluation on massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures. This code path is optimized for drawing deforming surfaces with static topology at interactive framerates.
Research Libraries
Pixar Research has a long history of technological innovation and pioneering work in computer graphics and animated films. Our world-class research scientists help the artists at Pixar create the worlds and characters loved by people throughout the world. Our research focuses on pushing the frontiers in areas including machine learning, rendering, simuation, geometry processing and many others.
Open Timeline IO
OpenTimelineIO is an interchange format and API for editorial cut information. OTIO contains information about the order and length of cuts and references to external media. It is not however, a container format for media