Why STL? I'd wager OBJ is a much more common interchange format for 3D models.
OBJ is for 3D graphics, STL is for 3D manufacturing.
Though it's trial to convert between them sans color loss from OBJ to STL 1.0
STL File Viewing
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Re: STL File Viewing
#32Yo github... while you're bothering, here are some other things that would be handy: * Visual STL diffs, maybe by coloring deleted/added triangles. Possibly with a viewer on gh-pages or on the /:username/:reponame/commits/:branchname endpoint? * DXF sucks, but yeah DXF rendering. * Maybe consider thingiview.js (which does not use WebGL) or possibly a WebGL equivalent viewer. Controlled rotation, zooming, camera repos…
LOL you talk about such features as if they're simple add-ons! Each is a huuuuge commitment from dev to maintenance. But yea, it'd be nice. GrabCAD is about as close to this as you get as far as implementing solid CAD stuff.
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#33Re: STL File Viewing
#34Yo github... while you're bothering, here are some other things that would be handy: * Visual STL diffs, maybe by coloring deleted/added triangles. Possibly with a viewer on gh-pages or on the /:username/:reponame/commits/:branchname endpoint? * DXF sucks, but yeah DXF rendering. * Maybe consider thingiview.js (which does not use WebGL) or possibly a WebGL equivalent viewer. Controlled rotation, zooming, camera repos…
Github is not going to support backend rendering of 3d files.
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#35Yo github... while you're bothering, here are some other things that would be handy: * Visual STL diffs, maybe by coloring deleted/added triangles. Possibly with a viewer on gh-pages or on the /:username/:reponame/commits/:branchname endpoint? * DXF sucks, but yeah DXF rendering. * Maybe consider thingiview.js (which does not use WebGL) or possibly a WebGL equivalent viewer. Controlled rotation, zooming, camera repos…
Github is not going to support backend rendering of 3d files.
They also don't do backend testing, but there are still service hooks for it anyway.
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#36I remember a few years ago Collada was quite the popular 3D file format. What are the latest trends in that field now?
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#37Yo github... while you're bothering, here are some other things that would be handy: * Visual STL diffs, maybe by coloring deleted/added triangles. Possibly with a viewer on gh-pages or on the /:username/:reponame/commits/:branchname endpoint? * DXF sucks, but yeah DXF rendering. * Maybe consider thingiview.js (which does not use WebGL) or possibly a WebGL equivalent viewer. Controlled rotation, zooming, camera repos…
LOL you talk about such features as if they're simple add-ons! Each is a huuuuge commitment from dev to maintenance. But yea, it'd be nice. GrabCAD is about as close to this as you get as far as implementing solid CAD stuff.
The maintenance commitment cannot be understated. If you add some kind of processing to a file format, people are going to expect it to always be there, and always work, so you're taking on an eternal renderer maintenance workload. That said, we'd love to cleverly render all sorts of formats. The limitation is the time and developer energy to do it right and keep it updated.
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#38Yo github... while you're bothering, here are some other things that would be handy: * Visual STL diffs, maybe by coloring deleted/added triangles. Possibly with a viewer on gh-pages or on the /:username/:reponame/commits/:branchname endpoint? * DXF sucks, but yeah DXF rendering. * Maybe consider thingiview.js (which does not use WebGL) or possibly a WebGL equivalent viewer. Controlled rotation, zooming, camera repos…
Wow. That's a stupidly large amount of work, barfed out with seeming ignorance to the cost of implementation.
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#39Collada support pls.
Fuck. That.
Here, here's the specs for that pile of offal:
http://www.khronos.org/collada/
It's a shitty, bad, bloated, slow, rubbish XML format. It has accumulated so much garbage in the name of interop that it is overkill for >95% of applications, and parsing/generating it is really annoying. It's a solution in search of a problem.
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#40Yo github... while you're bothering, here are some other things that would be handy: * Visual STL diffs, maybe by coloring deleted/added triangles. Possibly with a viewer on gh-pages or on the /:username/:reponame/commits/:branchname endpoint? * DXF sucks, but yeah DXF rendering. * Maybe consider thingiview.js (which does not use WebGL) or possibly a WebGL equivalent viewer. Controlled rotation, zooming, camera repos…
Somewhat serious: why not apply for a job at Github?