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Universal 3D File Format In The Works
telstar writes "The Register is reporting that more than 30 companies are working together to define a new file format intended to serve as a universal 3D file format. The new file format will be named the 'Universal 3D Format', or U3D. According to the article, they hope to make the new format as standard as MP3 has become for audio, and JPEG has become for 2D images. Interesting that they would choose two lossy media formats as models for comparison."
will allow 3D data to be more easily incorporated into other apps, such as web browsers
I hope the Christmas Island people get their act together before this becomes widely used... the horror... the horror...
Trolling is a art,
U3D will get a head start due to early release and saturate the market with crappy files while formats with better compression and quality are ignored by the public because "it's good enough"
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
I use a WYSE terminal, you insensative clod!
The Register is reporting that more than 30 companies are working together to define a new file format intended to serve as a universal 3D file format.
I forget who said it, but I think this fits very well: "The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."
"Interesting that they would choose two lossy media formats as models for comparison."
Well, this is probably a sign that the new 3d format will probably reduce 3d files to 2d or 2.5d. So you'll lose some of the third dimension when you save in it.
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
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Maybe so, but at least they have a patent number, which is further along than anything SCO's been able to come up with.
It will be XML based (i.e. text file with tags), use MIME to encode bitmaps, and be so bloated you will need a 10GHz P5 with 4GB of RAM just to render a rotating "Hello, World!" file...
3D Porn!!!
... let it not be XML-based. If there is a God in heaven he will not let it be in XML!
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Matt
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Ooooor, it's interesting that they compared it to a few formats that have allowed real people with real-world storage capacity to enjoy/share media of different flavors.
"Dude, you should see this 3D monster I created! Just let me plug my iEverything into the accompanying 70 lb. iRenderFarm."
You know what?
Yes, but just think of applying this standard to pr0n sites.....
And if there's anyone in the patent lawyer field who's studied the issues and has a valid opinion on this issue, it's that BurnAllGIFS.org guy.
I mean, come on. 'BurnAllGIFS.' It practically reeks of professionalism and years of law school.
As an aside, I have this CD full of GIFs I burned, but nobody ever told me what I was supposed to do with them after I burned them. Anyone?
This is an excellent point, since MP3 and JPEG have been absolute failures as formats and Free software cannot interoperate with them. Do we want to repeat that?
....err, wait
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Burbank, CA - A consortium of one programmer is working to
define a new file format intended to seve as a universal
file format for all data. The new file format will be
named the 'Universal File Format', of UFF. According to
the consortium, he hopes to make the new format as
standard as MP3 has become for audio, and JPEG has
become for 2D images.
"The basic structure of my file format is a sequence of
8-bit numbers," says the consortium, "in which each
number can represent anything required by the users of
the file."
(ducks for cover...) ;-)
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