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29 Jul 2024 12:26:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: INFO: about ALICE  
From: Raymond Tracing
Date: 10 Jan 1999 11:14:57
Message: <3698D18E.875FAE3E@tracing.org>
Johannes Hubert wrote:

> Hassoun wrote in message <3698C656.1A26F8D1@sympatico.ca>...
> [snip]
> >
> >it was developed by the university of virginia, then by carnegie mellon
> >university. it uses the .MDL format, hence my question.
>
> I think you need to distinguish between between "the" MDL *format* (which
> probably doesn't exist anyway) and the file extension "MDL".
> Moray uses (AFAIK) its own file-format, which happens to use the "MDL" file
> extension.
> Alice seems to use the same file extension for their format, but the two
> formats have probably nothing in common.
>
> Greetings,
> Johannes.

  I have a commercial 3D rendering and modeling program called 3DPlus
that also uses the .mdl extention. It is not in anyway compatible with Moray.
It seems to be popular.

Raymond


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