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Thinking about it, Pixar still have several other important patents that are important to the VFX industry - the main one being stochastic sampling for motion blur.

Arnold and VRay use this and Shake (compositor) had it as well. Interestingly, I heard a story from an ex-Nothing Real employee where Pixar were going to sue Nothing Real over it, but then Apple bought Shake and the issue went away :)




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