Type: 3D
Extension: 3DMF
Version:
Compression:
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Maintainer: Apple Computer
Specification: http://product.info.apple.com/qd3d/3DMFspec.HTML
Type: 3D
Extension: 3ds
Version:
Compression:
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Maintainer: Autodesk
Specification: 3DS is the native file format of Autodesk's 3D Studio interactibe,
modelling, rendering, and animation package for MS-DOS.
http://www.autodesk.com/
ftp://ftp.autodesk.com/
Sync Ltd 3D Studio Web Page
http://www.custard.co.uk/w3service/sync/3dstudio.htm
FRiC's 3D Studio Web Page
http://homepage.eznet.net/~frac/3ds.html
And other 3D Studio information can be found on the
comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio Usenet newsgroup.
Type: bitmap font
Extension: abf
Version: 2.0
Compression: None
Color Depth:
Maintainer: Adobe Systems
Specification: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/DeveloperSupport/Technotes/PSfiles/5006.ABF.ps
ABF is Adobe Systems' binary screen font format. ABF is, in fact,
the binary version of the Adobe's ASCII-based Glyph Bitmap
Distribution Format (BDF). Each ABF file is a sequence of 8-,
16-, or 32-bit words in either big- or little-endian order. Each
file stores information for one font.
Type: font metric
Extension: afm
Version: 4.0
Compression: None
Color Depth: N/A
Maintainer: Adobe Systems
Specification: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/DeveloperSupport/Technotes/PSfiles/5004.AFM.ps
AFM is Adobe's ASCII-based file format used for storing font
metric data as human-readable data. AFM is the standard Adobe
font file format.
This format is also known as the Adobe Multiple Font Metrics
(AMFM) and Adobe Composite Font Metrics (ACFM) file formats. In
fact, AFM, AMFM, and ACFM are actually three variations of the
same format. AFM files contain base or composite font information.
One AFM file is used per master design of a font. AMFM files store
control and global font information for a group of AFM files. And
ACFM files contain the global metrics of the composite font
program.
Type: 3D
Extension: art
Version:
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Maintainer:
Specification:
Type: Bitmap and animation
Extension: .ANI, .ANM, .CE?, .FLM, .NEO, .PAC, .PC?,
.PI?, .RGB, .SEQ, .TNY, .TN?, .UC?
Version: Variuos
Compression: None, RLE
Color Depth:
Maintainer:
Specification: The primary graphics file format of the Atari ST system is the
Electronic Arts Interchange File Format (IFF). However, a
collection of poorly documented image file formats native to the
Atari ST computer do exist as well. These formats are used
primarily for storing still-images, animations, and screen dumps.
The Computer Eyes Raw Data Format (.CE1, .CE2), Imagic File/
Picture Format (.IC1, .IC2, .IC3), NEOchrome Format (.NEO),
RGB Intermediate Format (.RGB), STAD Format (.PAC), Tiny Format
(.TNY, .TN1, .TN2, .TN3) are bitmap file formats. The Animatic
File Format (.ANM), Cyber Paint Sequence Format (.SEQ), DEGAS
Format (.PI1, PI2, .PI3, .PC1, .PC2, .PC3), and NEOchrome
Animation Format (.ANI) are animation file formats.
There seems to be no official documentation for most of these
formats. The document, "Atari ST Picture Formats", by David M.
Baggett does seem to be the definitive reference.
You can find it at:
AVS - Application Visualization System
Type: 3D
Extension:
Version:
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Maintainer:
Specification:
BDF - Adobe Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format
Type: Bitmap font
Extension: bdf
Version: 2.2
Compression: None
Color Depth: 1-bit
Maintainer: Adobe Systems
Specification: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/DeveloperSupport/Technotes/PSfiles/5005.BDF.ps
BDF is an ASCII-based file format used to store Adobe screen
fonts as human-readable data. The BDF sister format, ABF, stores
the same font data using a binary format.
This format was previously known as the Character Bitmap
Distribution Format, but was renamed to the Glyph Bitmap
Distribution Format to bring the format's name into agreement
with current industry terminology.
BIN - SGI Powerflip
BMP - Windows Bitmap Format
Type: Bitmap
Extension: BMP
Version:
Compression: RLE
Color Depth: 1- to 24-bit
Maintainer: Microsoft Corporation
Specification: BMP is the native bitmap file format of the Microsoft Windows
environment. It efficiently stores mapped or unmapped RGB
graphics data with pixels 1-, 4-, 8-, or 24-bits in size. Data
may be stored raw or compressed using a 4-bit or 8-bit RLE data
compression algorithm. BMP is an excellent choice for a simple
bitmap format which supports a wide range of RGB image data.
The BMP format was created and is maintained by Microsoft Corp.
Look in the Win16 SDK, Win32 SDK, and the Microsoft Developers
Network Knowledge Base available at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/,
http://www.microsotft.com/, and CompuServe for Windows BMP
information. Look in the OS/2 Developer Connection SDK for OS/2
BMP information.
BRL-CAD - Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD
Type: Bitmap, 3D, and general data
Extension:
Version:
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Maintainer:
Specification: BRL-CAD is a solid-modeling CAD package that consists of over 100
different programs
Additional BRL-CAD information may be found at:
BRL-CAD Home Page
http://web.arl.mil/software/brlcad/index.html
BRL-CAD Technical Reports
http://web.arl.mil/reports/
BUFR - Binary Universal Form for the Representation of Meteorological
Data
Type: General data
Extension:
Version:
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Maintainer: World Meteorological Organization
Specification: BUFR is a data format used to store quantiative meteorological
data.
BUFR, the WMO standard for point data
http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/data_stuff/formatPages/BUFR.html
BYU - BYU Movie
Type: 3D
Extension: byu
Version:
Compression:
Color Depth:
Maintainer:
Specification: http://www.cica.indiana.edu/graphics/object_specs/BYU.format.txt
CAD-3D
Type: 3D
Extension: 3d, 3d2, 3d4
Version: 2.0
Compression:
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Maintainer:
Specification: http://www.mediatel.lu/mmedia/render/h_3d2.html
http://www.cica.indiana.edu/graphics/object_specs/3D2.format.txt
CAD-3D 2.0 stores 3D objects using the 3D, 3D2, or 3D4 file formats.
Each format can store up to 40 objects and contains all information
about the objects, including the lighting and color palette.
CAD-3D files are similar to the older file format, but they no longer
require the Motorola Fast Floating Point library (LIBF) for the storage
of vertex coordinates. Thia new version stores each coordinate in a
two-byte word instead of a four-byte floating-point value, saving a
considerable amount of storage, and making the file more easily usable
by programs written with different floating-point formats.
CALS - Computer Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support Raster Format
Type: Bitmap
Extension: .cal
Version:
Compression: CCITT Group 4 (MMR)
Color Depth: 1-bit
Maintainer: CALS Management Support Office (DCLSO)
Specification: CALS files are used for document imaging and therefore only store
black-and-white, 1-bit image data. CALS Type I files only store a
single image per file and the data is always compressed using the
CCITT Group 4 encoding algorithm. CALS Type II files may stored
multiple images per file, the image data may be tiled, and tiles
stored as raw data or as data compressed using CCITT Group 4 encoding.
The CALS Home Page is http://www.acq.osd.mil/cals/
CDF
Type: General data
Extension: CDF
Version:
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Maintainer:
Specification: CDF is a scientific data management package (known as the "CDF
Library") developed by the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).
CDF allows application programmers to manage and manipulate scalar,
vector, and multi-dimensional data arrays. The CDF file format is
transparently utilized and made accessible to the through a consistent
set of interface routines known as the "CDF Interface".
The Common Data Format Home Page is
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdf/cdf_home.html
CDF - Cyberspace Description Format
Type: VRML
Extension: CDF
Version:
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Maintainer: Carl Tollander <carlt@autodesk.com>
Specification: http://vrml.wired.com/proposals/cdf/cdf.html
CDF is an ASCII-based format used for describing cyberspace decks
and virtual worlds. This format provides a standard framework that
is used to store, retrieve, modify, and exchange descriptions of
cyberspace objects; including object initialization, state, and
scheduling, and cyberspase simulation.
CDF is based on the CDF format described in Autodesk's Cyberspace
Development Kit. Autodesk's CDF is a closed format used to support
a proprietary deveoper's tool, while the proposed CDF format is an
open format intended to be accepted as an industry standard.
CDL - CADKey CADL Language
Type:
Extension:
Version:
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Maintainer: Cadkey Inc.
Specification:
Contact Cadkey at:
Cadkey Inc.
4 Griffin Road
Windsor, CT 06095-1511 USA
Voice: 203.298.8888
Voice: 800.394.2231
Fax: 203.298.6590
Email: info@cadkey.com
WWW: http://www.cadkey.com/
CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile
Type: Metafile
Extension: CGM
Version:
Compression: None
Color Depth:
Maintainer: ANSI, ISO, IEC, DOD, NIST
Specification:
The current version of the CGM ANSI/ISO standard (commonly called
CGM:1992) is:
Information Processing Systems--Computer Graphics Metafile
for the Storage and Transfer of Picture Description Information,
ANSI/ISO 8632-1992.
This standard superseded the early CGM:1986 (ANSI X3.122-1986) ANSI
standard. The CGM standard is contained in four ISO standards
documents:
ISO/IEC 8632-1:1992 Part 1: Functional Specification
ISO/IEC 8632-3:1992 Part 2: Character Encoding
ISO/IEC 8632-3:1992 Part 3: Binary Encoding
ISO/IEC 8632-4:1992 Part 4: Clear Text Encoding
And here are a few CGM Web pages:
MIL-STD-2301, CGM Implementation Standard for the NIST Format Standard
http://www.tasc.com/nitfs/NITFS_docs.html
CGM Home Page at NIST
http://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/~lsr/cgm.htm
Overview of CGM Standards
http://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/~lst/cgm_std.htm
The Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
http://www.agocg.ac.uk:8080/agocg/CGM.html
A freely available C library for creating CGM files is available at:
http://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/~lorax/cgm/cd.html
CMP - LeadView
Type: Bitmap
Extension: CMP
Version:
Compression: LEAD CMP compression (proprietary)
Color Depth:
Maintainer: LEAD Technologies
Specification: Not available
LEAD Technologies
Technical Support Department
Voice: 704.372.9681
Fax: 704.332.5868
BBS: 704.334.9045
Email: support@leadtools.com
WWW: http://www.leadtools.com/
CMU - Carnegie Mellon University Formats
COB - Calgari trueSpace2 File Format
Type: 3D
Extension: COB, SCN
Version:
Compression:
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Maintainer:
Specification: http://www.mediatel.lu/mmedia/render/files/calgari.pdf
Cyberware
Type:
Extension:
Version:
Compression:
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Maintainer: Cyberware
Specification:
Contact Cyberware at:
Cyberware Inc.
2110 Del Monte Avenue
Montery, CA 93940 USA
Voice: 408.657.1450
Fax: 408.657.1494
Email: sales@cyberware.com
WWW: http://www.cyberware.com/