OSL meaning in Academic & Science ?

Answer:

What is Open Shading Language mean?

Open Shading Language (OSL) is a shading language developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks for use in its Arnold Renderer. It is also supported by Illumination Research's 3Delight renderer, Otoy's Octane Render, V-Ray 3, and by the Cycles render engine in Blender (starting with Blender 2.65). OSL's surface and volume shaders define how surfaces or volumes scatter light in a way that allows for importance sampling; thus, it is well suited for physically-based renderers that support ray tracing and global illumination.

In Renderman OSL is also an important module. It is modified there for better Intel AVX2 and AVX-512 advanced vector extension support with doubled performance. SIMD OSL is the product of this Development for Intel SIMD AVX2 and AVX-512 Hardware (Haswell and newer). AMD CPU Hardware with AVX2 support like Ryzen with Zen Architecture can also use this extension.

Future release 1.12 will support C++14 as default. OpenImageIO support will be dropped for 2.0 with support of 2.1-2.3. SIMD Batch shader Mode and OptiX support are in development and experimental. CUDA 11 and OptiX 7.1 are here supported levels.

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Oregon State Library	Academic & Science
Office of Student Life	Academic & Science
Optical Stimulated Luminescence	Academic & Science
Open Shading Language	Academic & Science
Ocean State Libraries	Academic & Science
Outstanding Liabilities	Banking
Operation Support and Logistics	Business
Oriented Strand Lumber	Business
OCP Senior Credit Fund	Business
Optimization and Statistical Learning	Community
Office of Service Learning	Community
Our Savior Lutheran	Community
Operation Starting Line	Community
Ontario Safety League	Community
Overseas Service Learning	Community
Outsourced Sales Leadership	Community
Oaks School of Leadership	Community
Optimization Subroutine Library	Computer Assembly Language
Open Subscription License	Computing
Osl Setup Lite	Computing
Open Source License	Computing
Operating System Loader	Computing
Open Software License	Computing
Open Source Lab	Computing
Open Source Learning	Computing
Open Source Law	Computing
Object Selection Language	Computing
Optimization Solutions Library	Computing
OHBA Software Library	Computing
Ocean Sky Land	General
Open Style Lab	General
Optical Stimulating Luminescence	General
Oceanographic Systems Lab	General
Oil Sands Lease	General
Oversize Load	General
Operation Street Legal	General
Operating on a Suspended License	General
Output Seal	General
Out of State License	General
The Order Of St Luke	General
Our Savior Loves	General
Operation Solid Lives	General
Object Source Lighting	General
Opening Swing Low	General
Off Scale Low	General
Office of Space Launch	General
Oblivion Sound Lab	General
Office of Spiritual Life	General
Office of State Lands	General
Over Stay Leave	General
Over Stimulation Level	General
Optical Source Light	General
Observed Significance Level	General
Offshore Leak (Off-shore leak 2012)	Governmental
Order of Saint Luke	Governmental
Orbiting Solar Laboratory	Medical
Optically Stimulated Luminescence	Medical
Oncology Systems Limited	Medical
Oceanographic Systems Laboratory	Medical
Optimus Services Limited	Messaging
Oregon Short Line (Union Pacific Railroad)	Regional
Object Support Library	Softwares
Ontario Soccer League	Sports