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- From: CDO@IB.RL.AC.UK (C D Osland)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: Re: Data Formats
- Message-ID: <9212201834.AA12248@psi.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 14:21:39 GMT
- References: <kma@EDU.UTAH.CS.NIL>
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- 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
- >free visualization packages (e.g FAST) or simply because they are the
- >formats generated by data acquisition devices widely used in a field
- >(e.g medical imaging) ?
- >
- >I would like to collect the following infor regarding each format:
- > 1) data format name. 2) why it's popular 3) in what field.
- > 4) references (optional)
-
- 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. Each discipline has its
- own; a book that came out of a workshop we had last year lists quite
- a large number: Scientific Visualization - Techniques and Applications;
- Brodlie et al, Springer-Verlag 1992; ISBN 0-387-54565-4. The 35
- participants at that meeting identified over 100 formats that were
- COMMON in the disciplines they knew. Two discipline-independent formats
- are NetCDF and HDF.
-
- It really is a subject that is well documented in books and papers
- from SIGGRAPH etc.., so I suggest you pull stuff from them.
-
- Chris Osland
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
-