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The Khronos Group launches the COLLADA Contest

Posted by: Emmanuel Deloget at March 8, 2007 10:00:53 AM

Today Khronos also announced a COLLADA contest to encourage open source COLLADA conditioning programs to be created and uploaded into the COLLADA Framework on Sourceforge.

A growing body of conditioners enables any developer to construct sophisticated pipelines to condition content for diverse platforms. Winners of the COLLADA Contest will be announced at SIGGRAPH 2007 and prizes include airfare to San Diego and four nightÂ’s accommodation to attend SIGGRAPH and a SONY Playstation 3. Further details are at www.ColladaContest.com.

How To Enter
Participants must write one or more conditioners for the COLLADA Refinery. Example entries are:

An importer conditioner (load .3ds, .obj, .x3d, .vrml, cad, terrain )
An exporter conditioner (to a game engine, or other formats .3ds, .obj, .x3d)
Data processing for content pipeline (processing of geometry, optimization, conversion)
Debugging and monitoring tools (statistics, diff tool)
Automatic LOD generation - takes a geometry and creates a specified number of LOD geometries with names like (GeometryID)_LOD_1

How To Win
The winner will deliver their resulting COLLADA Conditioner in open source, using the MIT license (the same that was just adopted by Khronos for all its documentation). Documentation is required for the entry to be valid.