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- From: CDO@IB.RL.AC.UK (C D Osland)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: Re: Data Formats
- Message-ID: <9212231149.AA28718@psi.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 11:46:08 GMT
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- On 22 Dec 92 16:45:10 GMT <tttron@GOV.NASA.LERC.ESCHER> said:
- >In article <9212201834.AA12248@psi.rutgers.edu> CDO@IB.RL.AC.UK (C D Osland)
- > writes:
- >>On 19 Dec 92 07:28:15 GMT <kma@EDU.UTAH.CS.NIL> said:
- >>>Hi,
- >>>
- >>>What are other popular data formats like Plot3d that have been widely
- >>>accepted in a field (e.g CFD) either because they've been used by some
- ...deleted lines
- >>This is a VAST subject. Several whole books have been written on it.
- >>Some starting points are the formats supported by SDSC toolkit and
- >>PBMPLUS. They are graphical data formats.
- > Perhaps I'm wrong, but I get the impression that the original
- > post was inquiring about DATA formats (grid, solution, etc)
- > and *NOT* graphics image file formats.
- Although I put in my note that they were graphical formats, that was
- a simplification and many (NetCDF and HDF in particular) are
- discipline-independent data formats, which have become popular
- so that discipline-independent visualization systems can be written.
-
- Chris Osland
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
-