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11 Oct 2024 15:19:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: instantiation in various 3d formats  
From: Charles C
Date: 29 Oct 2007 00:44:34
Message: <47257342@news.povray.org>
Tom York wrote:
> A lot of older formats would have been dealing with very simple scenes (for an
> example of a format that time has really left behind, look at .3DS). I guess
> the use case for a lot of those formats was to hold a single model rather than
> a scene. You want a modern interchange format; Collada springs to mind.

Thanks.  So far I've been too busy to have a chance to do anything more 
than light browsing - I haven't really gone and done my homework fully 
yet.

That said, are it seems like back then there'd be even more concerned 
about efficiency.  E.g. table legs.  I guess I should look into scene 
formats too. :-) I didn't know there was a difference, but I also notice 
.wrl versus .vrml.


Charles


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