3D Scene Analytics and Management

 Universal Scene Description (USD) for interchange and augment arbitrary 3D scenes

Managing complex 3D scenes in a distributed environment is hard: both on the front and back end. For many applications, however, it is an essential requirement: open worlds, UGC (user-generated content), etc.

USD uses a textual, hierarchical namespace to identify its data by a textual identifier. As a concept, similar to #XML or #SGML hierarchies. USD provides a data structure that contains a scene graph to facilitate authoring and efficient extraction of composed scene descriptions. 

USD is roughly the fourth generation of “composed scene description” developed at Pixar. A vital component of the #USD framework was the development of a scalable rendering architecture, dubbed #Hydra, initially deployed with what would become known as the Storm high-performance rasterizing renderer.

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1641915

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