The /*jupiter jazz*/ group strongly believes in the Open Source philosophy.  Being open is an important part of our mandate.  Join us in the noble battle against reinventing the wheel™!

Whenever possible we try to share our internal tools under a proper open source licensing scheme, and we also try to convince our clients to do so by slashing our consulting fee. We don’t like to reinvent the wheel and we are happy if we can save someone else from having to do that too :)

Jupiter is an open planet: if you are using/improving our code please credit us according to the licensing scheme and drop us a line so we can integrate your changes in the repositories, we have a Google Group and mailing list for that:

Appleseed

appleseed is a new open source rendering framework. It is designed by François Beaune, software architect and head of the project.

appleseed has a very strong focus on quality and correctness. It started as a platform for rendering research, but the end goal has always been to develop a high-end renderer for a wider public. It features a very clean and solid code base, ideal for collaborative development and continuous, long term development. appleseed is available under the very permissive MIT license.

appleseed.foundation

At the heart of the appleseed project there is a set of classes that we call appleseed.foundation. It provides Jupiter’s warriors a thorough set of low-level building blocks powering tools like ParticlePorn, KingKonger and Floyd, and sponsors our noble battle against reinventing the wheel™.

Jupiter Skin

Jupiter Skin is a project container for RenderMan skin shaders, currently featuring Jupiter SGI Skin, a Spherical Gradient Illumination skin shader for 3Delight used in the upcoming movie “Endhiran”. Read the article, Going Skin Deep, to know more about our contribution to the movie.

Jupiter Skin is featured at OpenSourceVFX.org

Jupiter File Cache

Jupiter File Cache is a general purpose, multi location, multi process, thread safe file cache class with an example PRMan shadeop. Used for the movies “Hellboy II” and “The Dark Knight”.

Jupiter File Cache is also featured at: OpenSourceVFX.org

Jupiter PFX2Particles

Jupiter Paint Effects to Particles converts Maya Paint Effects brushes to Maya Particles.

Jupiter Make Tiled EXR

Jupiter Make Tiled EXR converts an OpenEXR texture of *any* resolution, into the tiled version of it.

Contribution on other projects

Other projects where our members have designed and/or contributed:

• Lensdist3de
  By Matti Gruener
  Designed 3DEqualizer LensDistortion in Nuke
• Toxic
  By François Beaune
  Designed one of the first OpenSource Global Illumination Renderers
• Affogato
  By Moritz Moeller
  Designed the first XSI to RenderMan Translator
• Liquid
  By Colin Doncaster
  Contributed to the Liquid Maya to RenderMan translator