
After NeoGeo's dissolution, Ton Roosendaal founded Not a Number Technologies (NaN) in June 1998 to further develop Blender, initially distributing it as shareware until NaN went bankrupt in 2002. NeoGeo was later dissolved, and its client contracts were taken over by another company. On January 1, 1998, Blender was released publicly online as SGI freeware. Some design choices and experiences for Blender were carried over from an earlier software application, called Traces, that Roosendaal developed for NeoGeo on the Commodore Amiga platform during the 1987–1991 period. The name Blender was inspired by a song by the Swiss electronic band Yello, from the album Baby, which NeoGeo used in its showreel. Version 1.00 was released in January 1995, with the primary author being company co-owner and software developer Ton Roosendaal.

They are represented by Blender curves with a profile object. If a terrain is provided, roads are projected on the terrain.The Dutch animation studio NeoGeo (not related to the Neo Geo family of video game hardware) started to develop Blender as an in-house application, and based on the timestamps for the first source files, Januis considered to be Blender's birthday.

If a terrain is provided, buildings are placed on the terrain automatically. A large number of roof shapes is supported. Composition into 3D parts for a building with the complex structure is also processed. Building height and number of floors are used to create the final scene. The addon imports buildings from OpenStreetMap.Take look at the premium version ! It provides the features of the base version listed below and more ! One click download and import of OpenStreetMap and terrain for Blender! Global coverage!
