[comp.ai] using relational databases to store 3D information

beverly@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Beverly Seavey) (08/03/89)

I'm looking for pointers into the literature on the use of
relational databases to store information on spatial configuration
of 3-dimensional objects. Word from one of the retrograde fuddy-duddies
of the biological database world is that it is "impossible". I take
this to mean that there is probably some very neat work being done in
this area, but it isn't being done in Basic, FOTRAN, or Wordstar. :-)
The objects that we want to store info on are proteins in 3R. They may be considered to be connected jointed segments with between 20 and ~200 segments. Any pointers?