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Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image

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Re: Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image

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Post by mpeg »

dhx wrote: post #5

If this is of interest, Wikidata contains a huge amount of data on file formats. For example, [1] is a huge list of file formats and [2] is a list of documentation or source code (structs etc) describing file formats. Other data includes links to other file format information databses such as PRONOM, LOC and NARA, magic sequences to identify files of a particular format, and links to source code as parsers of file fo…

If you notice, a lot of the more esoteric 3D formats listed on wikidata link right back to the paulbourke.net site from this post, it's a small world!

Re: Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image

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Post by surfingdino »

steve1977 wrote: post #10
surfingdino wrote: post #2

Handy resource. Thanks. Is see IFF is missing from that list. Used to be popular in the Amiga world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format

Well there are formats like AIFF and WAVE, see here: https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/audio/ These are more or less direct descendants of IFF so to speak (WAVE being based on RIFF, which is essentially little-endian IFF), the page also mentions as much: "Audio IFF conforms to the "EA IFF 85" Standard for Interchange Format Files developed by Electronic Arts."

IFF was a popular image format at the time.

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Post by david_for_you »

kevthecoder wrote: post #8

Nice list. USD (Universal Scene Description) has been renamed to OpenUSD. Part of the motivation was to make it easier to search for. Not all the official docs have been updated yet though.

Given USD is in the list, I am a little bit surprised that alembic (.abc) isn't.

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Post by steve1977 »

surfingdino wrote: post #13
steve1977 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well there are formats like AIFF and WAVE, see here: https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/audio/ These are more or less direct descendants of IFF so to speak (WAVE being based on RIFF, which is essentially little-endian IFF), the page also mentions as much: "Audio IFF conforms to the "EA IFF 85" Standard for Interchange Format Files developed by Electronic Arts."

IFF was a popular image format at the time.

Would that have been ILBM specifically? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILBM

I wasn't using Amigas at that time, I had an Atari... I vaguely remember Targa files (.tga)

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Post by eastof »

This is awesome! I haven't found this detailed of a description of the vox format in one place anywhere. This will help me a ton on my hobby project for which I wrote my own vox library to write files.

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Post by surfingdino »

steve1977 wrote: post #16
surfingdino wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IFF was a popular image format at the time.

Would that have been ILBM specifically? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILBM I wasn't using Amigas at that time, I had an Atari... I vaguely remember Targa files (.tga)

DeluxePaint used IFF. Here's a good writeup https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2012/06/iff-file-forma...
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