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DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 2.40

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DreamWorks Animation has updated MoonRay, its in-house production renderer, now available open-source. MoonRay 2.40 extends the new light path visualizer for debugging renders, and introduces a prototype for a new user interface. A high-performance Monte Carlo ray tracer, used on all recent DreamWorks moviesOpen-sourced in 2023, along with Arras, DreamWorks’ in-house cloud rendering framework, MoonRay … Read more

Open source licenses: Everything you need to know

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Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless standalone applications. The benefits of open source software are well understood, promising greater control and transparency. However, there’s a perennial struggle between the open source and proprietary realms, leading … Read more