T8M-KAUP@FINTUVM.BITNET (Asko Kauppi) (12/31/89)
I'm highly interested in all possible storage/transportation
standards concerning the following:
1) Representing 3D graphics and storing them
Every CAD program has a file format all of its own.
Is there really nothing like the IFF and GIF in the 2D world?
2) The same for 2D graphics (GIF, IFF etc.)
Standard descriptions for both bitmapped and vectorized
types of 2D graphics. I already have GIF, IFF and TIFF.
3) Vectorized (=Bezier curved) font standards
PostScript I know. Does anyone have AGFA Compugraphic Fonts'
specifications? Others welcomed as well.
Thanks for your support. The reason I'm asking this lot is
designing a graphical BBS software. I let you hear of it
when it's ready for it...
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Asko Kauppi alias T8M-KAUP at FINTUVM.BITNET (BitNet
MAMMUTTI.UTU.FI (InterNet
Student of Physics
Turku University addr: Kakskerrantie 176, 20960 Turku, FINLAND
Finland tel : +358 (9)21 588 359 / 588 434jch@apollo.HP.COM (Jan Hardenbergh) (01/04/90)
> From: T8M-KAUP@FINTUVM.BITNET (Asko Kauppi) > Date: 30 Dec 89 18:21 GMT > Every CAD program has a file format all of its own. > Is there really nothing like the IFF and GIF in the 2D world? In the CAD world, there is IGES or the Initial Graphics Exchange Standard and ISO/ANSI are working on a monster international standard referred to as "STEP" which will replace IGES and everything else. In the PC CAD world there is the AutoCad transfer file format, called DXF. For general 3D Graphics, you want CGM, or the Computer Graphics Metafile. CGM works great for 2D graphics as well. CGM definitions are available from ISO and ANSI. PHIGS archive files are worth considering. I'd be interested in the answers to the vectorized font standards? Perhaps comp.fonts? -Jan Hardenbergh - jch@apollo.hp.com - HP/Graphics Technology@Apollo
julian@riacs.edu (Julian E Gomez) (01/09/90)
In article <1034T8M-KAUP@FINTUVM> T8M-KAUP@FINTUVM.BITNET (Asko Kauppi) writes:
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" I'm highly interested in all possible storage/transportation
" standards concerning the following:
"
" 1) Representing 3D graphics and storing them
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" Every CAD program has a file format all of its own.
" Is there really nothing like the IFF and GIF in the 2D world?
One possibility is 3DGF published by MacroMind,
Inc. It is both binary (IEEE floating point) and
ASCII, is designed for easy implementation, and
is directly compatible with Renderman. MacroMind
is at 415/442-0200.
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Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez julian@riacs.edu