Tool | Description | Current Usage |
| graphics interchange format |
mesh and joint import |
| Arnold |
| ray tracing renderer |
host application |
| portable C++ source |
threads, regex, etc |
| FBX |
|
data exchange technology |
mesh and joint import |
| graph visualization software |
| procedural animation tool |
host application |
| JSON |
|
data-interchange format |
| embeddable scripting language |
| 3D animation software |
host application |
| audio API |
| computing language | very fast operators |
| rigid body dynamics library |
| 2D and 3D vector graphics API |
| OpenIL |
|
image library |
| OpenImageIO |
|
library for reading and writing images |
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