Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!oliveb!sun!peregrine!falk From: falk%peregrine@Sun.COM (Ed Falk) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: 3d objects posted...Merry Christmas! Message-ID: <10712@sun.uucp> Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 12:41:25 EST Article-I.D.: sun.10712 Posted: Sat Dec 20 12:41:25 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 21:58:55 EST References: <6901@decwrl.DEC.COM> <507@elrond.UUCP> <213@mcdsun.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: falk@sun.UUCP (Ed Falk) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 19 In article <213@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes: >In article <507@elrond.UUCP> amamaral@elrond.UUCP (Alan Amaral) writes: >>Please do post the sources if humanly possible. I have been looking for >>some reasonable file format that I can use where I stand a snowballs chance >>in hell of exchanging info with others easily. This seems to fit the > >You might want to check out the "IFF" format used by most programs on >the Commodore Amiga. There's a couple of issues that need to be addressed in computer graphics: standards for model description and for image storage. Hopefully, they will evolve on their own before some committee does it. I'd like to do a survey. What are the commonly used file formats for model descriptions and images? I know of the model description format used at CalTech and the image file format defined in the sun man pages. -ed falk, sun microsystems