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Pixar names the evaluation (eval) API as the main feature for the release at Siggraph, bringing several new functions. Not much has yet been revealed, nor has the exact timing of the release. But since Siggraph only runs until Thursday, it cannot be much longer. Release 2.0 will use the Apache licence.
Incidentally, DP author Nico Ostermann explains how OpenSubdivs made life easier for the artists on Pixar’s Monsters University in our cover story in the current issue.
