FRfranzb·Nov 28, 2017Submission
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appleseed
C++2016–2023
appleseedhq / appleseed
appleseed
A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects
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A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects
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Observed mentions: 2016-09-11 20:11:45 UTC to 2023-04-16 22:41:14 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesThere has been quite a lot of work done. You can check the release notes to see precisely what has been improved.
https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/tags
In Appleseed – open-source physically-based rendering enginePerhaps 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"Improving" is kind of a strong statement. See for example this recent PR: https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/pull/1217/files. It seems like they just keep adding and removing special cases, so there's code churn but not really progress in any particular direction...
In Appleseed – open-source physically-based rendering engine