About

This project demonstrates the use of USD Python APIs via Google Colaboratory notebook.

The goal is to make it easy to:

• Try code snippets without building or installing Pixar's Universal Scene Description (USD) locally;

• Share code snippets without copy/pasting files and scripts to a local machine, thus mitigating some security concerns;

• Provide repro steps when submitting issues to USD's GitHub repository;

• etc.

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Sample Notebooks

A few sample notebooks inspired from Colin Kennedy's excellent USD Cookbook:

Notebook	Google Colab link

Notebook	Google Colab link
Rendering Pixar's Kitchen Set using Arnold
Flattening a USD Stage
Fast export
Get SDF Prim path
SDF change block

Additional Colaboratory Links for Further Advanced CG Studies

Although not directly USD specific, the following repo of Google Colaboratory links provides a good long list of CG related deep learning notebooks as a bridge to what could be possible with USD + notebooks and literate programming.

University College London Smart Geometry Processing group's SIGGRAPH Asia CreativeAI: Deep Learning for Graphics tutorial repo: https://github.com/smartgeometry-ucl/dl4g