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Feature Request for looks

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Hi everyone,

we had a bit of a conversation about looks in the UX group yesterday and I wanted to create a feature request so it can be discussed more broadly.

I am trying to find a simple solution for non-OCIO experts like me to load looks in a DCC software. Expert users in many VFX studios combine "Views + Looks" but I would like something simpler, if possible. ;-)

So yesterday someone (I can't remember the name, sorry!) threw the idea of [active_looks]. You could have 50 looks available in the config, but only 5 "active"... exactly like displays and views. I'd be curious to see what people thinks of this feature request. In an OCIO config, it could look like this :

```
active_displays: [Display - sRGB, Display - Rec.1886 / Rec.709 Video, Display - P3-D65, Display - P3-DCI]
active_views: [Output - SDR Video - ACES 1.0, ACES 1.1, Output - HDR Cinema (108 nits & P3 lim) - ACES 1.1, Raw]
active_looks: [Vision, Earthy, Complement, Bipack]
```

The idea would be then to have a dropdown menu in "Viewers" for the active looks, if that makes sense. Here is a mockup to give you an idea :

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70026961/114567846-e3aefc00-9c73-11eb-8675-78ccbb17dc17.png)

Blender has kinda done something similar :
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70026961/114584029-82425980-9c82-11eb-83c7-66d8cc4f723e.png)

I know that Nuke and Katana have come up with "OCIOLookTransform" nodes as well but I guess in the viewer it would be more convenient.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70026961/114584277-cc2b3f80-9c82-11eb-9fac-8f4c12035e24.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70026961/114584543-144a6200-9c83-11eb-8d97-815cc8dc2897.png)

A mockup in a render engine would be like this for example :
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70026961/114586757-48bf1d80-9c85-11eb-8218-36e9278e33a2.png)

Thanks,
Chris

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