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  Re: INFO: about ALICE  
From: stefan
Date: 11 Jan 1999 20:27:24
Message: <369aa484.657739@news.povray.org>
TurboCad also uses the .MDL extension for its 3D files. It is
different from the Moray format.

Stefan (USA)

On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 08:13:03 -0800, Raymond Tracing <Ray### [at] tracingorg>
wrote:

>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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