European Union Contributes To Blender Development

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 8, 2004 @08:12PM from the getting-money-is-priceless dept.

kyknos.org writes "As officially announced yesterday, the European committee has granted 1.9 Million euro funding to Uni-verse. This three-year cooperation project around Verse, a 3d network protocol, intends to develop a networked open source 3D platform which includes collaborative tools, 3D rendering systems and acoustics simulation. As partner in the Uni-verse consortium, the Blender Foundation has been granted 140.000 euro to finance further professionalizing services at blender.org, and enable long term research and development support for a next generation open source 3D tool. The consortium has been founded by the Stockholm Technical University (KTH), which also employs the original Verse developers Eskil Steenberg and Emil Brink. The other development partners are the Interactive Institute Sweden, the Helsinki University of Technology, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics and the Blender Foundation. Application testing and content creation will be done by Paregos Mediadesign Sweden and MinusPlus architects in Hungary."

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[SCNR] Uh, what is... by neglige · 2004-02-08 22:46 · Score: 3, Funny

... "a 3d network protocol"?

A protocol where server go up & down?

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1. Re:[SCNR] Uh, what is... by Pogue+Mahone · 2004-02-08 23:48 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  A protocol where server go up & down?
  In my experience, servers go up & down all the time.
  
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Whoa.. by Sri+Ramkrishna · 2004-02-09 13:03 · Score: 2, Funny

Thats an awful lot of money to come up with a new kind of blender. You know it's those French chefs that are driving all this.

sri