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title: "MaterialX Lama"
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<span style="color: #000000">MaterialX Lama is a state of the art material layering system developed at Industrial Light & Magic that introduces a modular approach to building material networks and includes recent shading R&D work on energy conservation and dispersion. </span>

<span style="color: #000000">The MaterialX Lama project represents ongoing R&D into materials at ILM, and represents one facet of the larger MaterialX project.  </span>  


<span style="color: #000000">MaterialX Lama node composition also offers a simpler built-in mechanism for energy conservation and other properties, because of its fundamental focus on layering of physically based responses.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">MaterialX Lama is battle-tested at ILM and RenderMan will be able to take advantage of ongoing work as it evolves.</span>

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