Project Summary
AP3 (I'd pronounce ape) is an AppKit inspired, Houdini wanna be, node-based, network-enabled and put-everything-in-threads Objective-C 3D engine, color-managed 2D raster compositor, real-time and off-line simulation and animation development framework, and it's still under currently one person's "help me please!" heavy development, the main usage would be the engine for 3Σ, a full features 3D modeler/2D image editor being written for Étoilé. AP3 will be like AppKit + Gorm, just in 3D while 3Σ aims to be like a full feature multimedia editing application for workstations. In fewer words, it is being developed mainly to compete with Blender, PShops and other mainstream 3D applications.
In a Nutshell, AP3...
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took an estimated 4 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2009
ending with its most recent commit about 12 years ago
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