Binary Culture wins "Super-Machinima" project funding

Western Australian ICT developer Binary Culture Pty Ltd has been awarded a development grant through the iVEC Industry & Government Uptake Grants Scheme 2007. (Press release.)

Binary Culture's project "Broadcast Quality Machinima: Using Supercomputing Platforms for Real-time, High-end Machinimation" will see the development of a high-performance platform for the production of machinimated, higher-than-HDTV-quality computer animation with broad application in web publishing, the games industry, broadcasting and cinematic pre-visualisation. The twelve-month development will result in a generalised supercomputing platform for high-end, personal computer-based modeling and rendering systems, allowing commodity software to take advantage of massively-parallel processing and large-scale, high-speed storage technologies in producing the next generation of machine animated multimedia content.

Binary Culture will carry out the research project in 2008, in association with its partner organisations Interzone Pty Ltd, CSIRO and Curtin University of Technology.