2025-01-13 - OCIO UX Working Group Notes

January 13, 2025

• Mark Titchener (TSC) - Foundry

• Doug Walker (TSC Chief Architect) - Autodesk

• Joseph Goldstone

• Barry Dempsey

Apologies:

• Michael Dolan (TSC) - Epic Games

First WG call this year so a relatively short catch-up. Primarily a recap on where we finished up last year.

• We would like to add more UI/UX examples to ocioview to form the basis of the UX implementation guide.

• Ultimately we would like the UX guidelines to be included in/alongside the main OCIO documentation.

• Doug has set up a Github Project for the UX WG.

  • Mark to start breaking down the work into tasks. The basis of this being our original UX Google doc.

• Mark spent some time using ocioview. I’ve written some thoughts/bugs in a Google doc for now but I’ll start logging them as issues on GitHub.

• At the previous meeting we discussed whether many people were using ocioview as we haven’t heard much in the way of feedback or bugs.

  • One reason may be that getting it running requires a bit of knowledge/effort.

  • We wondered if it could be separated out as a PyPi package with a dependency on OCIO. It still requires quite a lot of other dependencies though.

  • Michael said he would like to consolidate the graphics engines being used as there are currently quite a few (possibly use pygfx for everything?).

  • Shortly after the last meeting Thomas Mansencal submitted this PR to add support for Astral’s uv which could lower the bar to entry and get more people using ocioview.

• Joseph planning to take a look at ocioview when time permits.

  • Had questions about whether ocioview could support full use of HDR capable displays e.g. XDR on MacBook Pro laptops.

  • Mark - I believe this should be possible to implement with Qt/PySide6 i.e. tagging the image buffer accordingly for the OS (to massively oversimplify).