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A COLLADA Toolbox
R´emi Arnaud
9.1 Introduction
COLLADA was first introduced during SIGGRAPH 2004 [Barnes and Arnaud 04]
as a digital asset exchange (.dae) specification. The effort to develop COLLADA
started in 2003, involving many companies such as Alias, Discreet, Digital Eclipse,
and Electronic Arts, and led to the publication of the version 1.4 specification as
an open standard by the Khronos Group [Khronos Group 11a], the same group
managing the OpenGL, OpenGL ES, WebGL, and other well-known graphics stan-
dard specifications. The 1.4 specification had minor fixes and updates, providing
the version 1.4.1 specification, which, at the time of this publicati ...