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appleseed
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appleseedhq / appleseed

appleseed

A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects

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What it is

A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-09-11 20:11:45 UTC to 2023-04-16 22:41:14 UTC.

012342016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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oktomus·Apr 7, 2020Submission

Ask HN: Good open-source software documentation examples

Hi ! I'm doing some research on how to improve/make appleseed[1] documentation. Appleseed is an open-source rendering software and we need both user and developer documentations such as: - Guide on how to use appleseed - Detailed docs on how appleseed is working - Developer documentation (API reference, contribution guide, getting started) So if there is a documentation that you really like, please share it :)(whether it's about rendering or not, for user and/or for developers) [1] https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/
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erichocean·Feb 4, 2017
Perhaps I'm easier to please. The article your linked to was publish in October 2015. Just this year they've added code[0] to support alSurface[1], which I consider to be a significant (and unexpected) feature improvement. Their news page[2] (to me) shows significant improvements since late 2015 as well, and it looks like the 1.7.x beta is just around the corner[3]. [0] https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/commit/8b0bb02112f7... [1] http://www.anderslanglands.com/alshaders/index.html [2] http://appleseedhq.net/news.html [3] https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/commit/3dfcad020e0f...
In Appleseed – open-source physically-based rendering engine
franzb·Nov 1, 2016
appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects. It's been used on TV documentaries and commercials, and it's been integrated in various packages, among them Autodesk 3ds Max [1] and Image Engine's Gaffer [2]. We've also made a short film with it, "Fetch": https://vimeo.com/92172277 This month we're planning on starting the volume rendering subsystem (https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/projects/1) and, if time allows, investigate switching to Intel's Embree ray tracing kernels [3]. The code is written in C++ and we have a Python 2/3 API. There is work for everyone: pure rendering (a good understanding of rendering concepts and related maths will help), user interface (Qt), samples (Python), system programming, hardcore optimization... It a
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ll seems rather technical, but don't be afraid, we're a small but welcoming community and everyone's happy to help! appleseed is MIT-licensed. Home: http://appleseedhq.net/ GitHub: https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/appleseedhq [1] https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed-max [2] http://www.gafferhq.org/ [3] https://embree.github.io/
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