Sony Collada's Original Logo (not designed by me)
Every time I read or say COLLADA, I think of that song If you like Pina Colada by Jimmy Buffett. But I am sure most programmers don’t think of it that way.
Collada was started by Sony and was later acquired by The Khronos Group. COLLADA is a COLLAborative Design Activity for establishing an interchange file format for interactive 3D applications.
COLLADA defines an open standard XML schema for exchanging digital assets among various graphics software applications that might otherwise store their assets in incompatible formats. COLLADA documents that describe digital assets are XML files, usually identified with a .dae (digital asset exchange) filename extension.
It is the official format of the Sony Playstation 3 AKA PS3. Early collaborators included Alias Systems Corporation, Criterion Software, Autodesk, Inc., and Avid Technology. Dozens of commercial game studios and game engines have adopted the standard. Google Earth (release 4) has adopted COLLADA (1.4) as its native format for describing the objects populating the earth. Users can simply drag and drop a COLLADA (.dae) file on top of the virtual Earth. Alternatively, Google SketchUp can also be used to create .kmz files, a zip file containing a KML file, a COLLADA (.dae) file, and all the texture images.
Here is the revamped logo of COLLADA that is on a book on the subject. I can’t claim that I did the sailboat design, however, it is really nicely done. This was the first (and only) piece of work that I’ve ever done that was published at a global level. I thought it was really great – but no cause for celebration and to break out the Dom Perignon. It’s a type of celebration that just makes you abit surprised, speechless and in awe at the same time. Words can’t really describe that feeling – but it’s a good feeling.
* Disclaimer: Most of the stuff that are written here were taken from Wikipedia.
