3D Geometry Specifications:
3DS - The 3D Studio Format
MLI - 3D Studio's Material-Library
Format
BYU - Movie BYU file format
DEM - USGS Standards for Digital Elevation Models [Link]
DXF - Used by Autodesk's AutoCAD
DXF
Release 13 specification [Link]
DXF Release 12 specification /
[Link]
DXF Release 10 specification /
[Link]
Creating DXF files
FIG - Used by REND386/AVRIL
FLT - MulitGen
Inc.'s OpenFlight format [link]
GLC - File format information
HDF -
Hierarchical Data Format [Link]
IGES - Initial Graphics Exchange
Specification
IV -
Open Inventor File Format Info [Link]
LWLO, LWOB & LWSC -
Lightwave 3D file formats
LWLO - Lightwave 3D Layered Object
LWOB - Lightwave 3D Object
LWSC - Lightwave 3D Scene
MAZ - Used by Division's dVS/dVISE
MGF -
Materials and Geometry Format [Link]
MSDL -
Manchester Scene Description Language [Link]
NFF & ENFF - (Extended) Neutral File Format
NFF - Scene description language
by Eric Haines
NFF - Used by Sense8's WorldToolKit
ENFF - Extensions to Eric Haines' NFF
OBJ - Wavefront Object Files
OFF - A 3D mesh Object File Format
OOGL -
Object Oriented Graphics Library
PLG - Used by REND386/AVRIL
POV - Persistence of Vision ray-tracer
QD3D - Apple's QuickDraw 3D Metafile format
[Link]
TDDD -
Used by the Imagine & Turbo Silver ray-tracers
VIZ - Used by Division's dVS/dVISE
VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VRML97 ISO
Specification [Link]
Version 1.0 Specification /
[Link]
WLD - Used by REND386/AVRIL
Moving Image Resources:
MPEG - Moving Picture Expert Group
The MPEG-1 Archive and
The MPEG-2 Archive [Link]
Lance Ladic's Info on the MPEG Format [Link]
MPEG Resources on the Web [Link]
MPEGe Lib: A library to help create MPEG movies [Link]
QuickTime - Info on QuickTime Movies
Apple's QuickTime Continuum [Link]
Lance Ladic's Info on the QuickTime Format [Link]
QuickTime players for a number of platforms [Link]
FLI/FLC - Autodesk's Flic Animation format
Flic format description
Further Flic format description
AVI - Microsoft's Audio Video Interleave format
Lance Ladic's Info on the AVI Format [Link]
OpenDML AVI File Format Extensions V1.0 [Link]
Short Overview of AVI features [Link]
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