Hi! On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Inderpreet Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for writing. Previous discussions aboit 3d have usually been about >> x3d and cml, but i think most people just want a 3d format supported, and >> dont care which one (to speak from a wikimedia as opposed to a mediawiki >> prespective). > > Currently we have a support for .g (BRL-CAD's binary file format) > files, but BRL-CAD has a long list of supported formats so anything > that BRL-CAD can import will be supported. BRL-CAD can export files as > X3D but it cannot import them yet :( . The file formats that BRL-CAD > can import are ASCII, AutoCad DXF, Elysium Neutral Facetted, EUCLID, > FASTGEN, IGES, Jack, NASTRAN, STL, TANKILL, Unigraphics and Viewpoint > which can then be internally converted to .g file and exported to .obj > for 3D online geometry viewer.
I think will be good idea to investigate, if there open 3D formats, i. e. non-proprietary and not covered by patents. Eugene. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
