On 12/10/2009 12:25 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > Just to throw out a wild idea, did anyone think of using HDF as the basis for > a new binary OSG format? > HDF is probably over-kill but HDF is self-describing and includes things like > compression of FP data etc. The hierarchical part of HDF seems to me to well > suited to storing scene-graph type data. > I suppose the neat thing about HDF is that all you have to worry about is how > to structure the data in the file, the actual low-level storing of the binary > data is taken care of by the HDF API.
I seem to recall one of my geospatial data coder friends as hating on HDF quite thoroughly. I don't recall the exact reasons, but he was quite disgusted with it. > Andrew -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere Xenon AlphaPixel.com PixelSense Landsat processing now available! http://www.alphapixel.com/demos/ "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
