In the case of Linux, this is done by the Linux Foundation. Some VFX-relevant open-source projects, such as OpenEXR or OpenVDB, are now under the umbrella of the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), which in turn is under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. Anyone working with VFX will inevitably also directly or indirectly use open-source technologies, such as OpenEXR for exchanging images with high bit depth in the scene-referenced colour space, OpenColorIO for colour management, or OpenImageIO for reading and writing numerous image formats. These components are usually invisible to the user as parts of larger software, such as The Foundry Nuke, Autodesk Maya, or Blender. Although these open-source projects are used by many companies, the development of the projects was mostly in the hands of individual companies. For example, OpenEXR was under the control of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Open Shading Language (OSL) was managed by Sony Pictures Imageworks, and OpenVDB was over...
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