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Proud dad: my son is one of the three founders of Caustic. In the video James (someone else's son :-) demonstrates the developer version done in FPGA. A 10x ve
by russell 18y ago
Proud dad: my son is one of the three founders of Caustic. In the video James (someone else's son :-) demonstrates the developer version done in FPGA. A 10x version in custom silicon is due out next year.
The founders raised their nest egg by cashing in their Apple stock. They created a software emulator and then raised $5.5M from angels, not VCs. They did use a VC to find a CEO whose function was to raise the capital. He got no salary and no stock until he got the funding. Even after funding the founders still had control. Take heart, it's possible to do hardware, even these days.
- weaksauce 18y agoReally quite impressive. Looks like they come from good stock. Congrats.
- anigbrowl 18y agoWell, you're right to feel proud. It's a fine and refreshingly hype-light product. The only change I'd like to see is a simple application included that takes a common 3d file format (blender, pov or something) and spits out a rendered bitmap. Instead of waiting for developers to add Caustic support to their 3d apps over the summer, this would allow a 3d artist to start saving time tomorrow, even knowing that that it wasn't optimized. The little app displayed in the video demo would be more than sufficient, it just doesn't seem from the website like it comes with any ready-to-use tools for the non-programmer.