graphics/alembic - The NetBSD Packages Collection

Alembic is an open computer graphics interchange framework. Alembic
distills complex, animated scenes into a non-procedural,
application-independent set of baked geometric results. This
ditillation of scenes into baked geometry is exactly analogous to
the distillation of lighting and rendering scenes into rendered
image data.

Alembic is focused on efficiently storing the computed results of
complex procedural geometric constructions. It is very specifically
NOT concerned with storing the complex dependency graph of procedural
tools used to create the computed results. For example, Alembic
will efficiently store the animated vertex positions and animated
transforms that result from an arbitrarily complex animation and
simulation process which could involve enveloping, corrective
shapes, volume-preserving simulations, cloth and flesh simulations,
and so on. Alembic will not attempt to store a representation of
the network of computations (rigs, basically) which are required
to produce the final, animated vertex positions and animated
transforms.