Intended Audience
This document is public and available to anybody. The intended audience is programmers that want to create applications, or plug-ins for applications, that can utilize the COLLADA format.
Readers of this document should have knowledge of XML, XML Schema. The reader needs also be familiar with shading languages such as NVIDIA ® Cg or Pixar RenderMan®. The reader should have a general knowledge and understanding of computer graphics and graphics API such as OpenGL®.