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+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 'distillation' 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.
+
+HDF5 is an optional dependency autodetected with the support enabled by
+default if found in your system. You can disable it passing to the
+script an environment variable as following:
+ HDF5=no ./alembic-framework.Slackbuild
+
+alembic-framework is an optional dependency for Blender autodetected.