Ptex

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Ptex is a texture mapping system developed by Walt Disney Animation Studios for production-quality rendering:

• No UV assignment is required! Ptex applies a separate texture to each face of a subdivision or polygon mesh.
• The Ptex file format can efficiently store hundreds of thousands of texture images in a single file.
• The Ptex API provides cached file I/O and high-quality filtering - everything that is needed to easily add Ptex support to a production-quality renderer or texture authoring application.

Jul 16, 2018	Ptex performance evaluated on 96 threads using Moana data in PBRT.
Jul 4, 2018	Production data set from Moana including Ptex textures was publicly released for research use.
Oct 5, 2011	Ptex supported in 3Delight Studio Pro 10.
Aug 11, 2011	Real-time Ptex demonstrated by NVIDIA at Siggraph 2011.
July 22, 2011	Ptex supported in Air 11.
May 31, 2011	Ptex supported in Mari 1.3.
Apr 29, 2011	Ptex supported in V-Ray 2.0.
Sep 29, 2010	Ptex export supported in Mudbox 2011 SAP.
Aug 24, 2010	Ptex supported in 3D-Coat 3.3.
July 27, 2010	Ptex supported in Houdini 11.
Jan 15, 2010	Ptex released as free open source.
Sep 30, 2009	Ptex integrated into Pixar's RenderMan Pro Server 15.0.
Nov 21, 2008	Disney's Bolt released; first feature film to use Ptex.
Jun 24, 2008	Ptex presented at Eurographics Symposium on Rendering.
Jun 10, 2008	Glago's Guest premiered at Annecy; first production to use Ptex.