The text data usually about 8 chars per floating point value. A binary
representation is 4 bytes. That is only a factor of 2. A binary version
of the Connaly molecule is about 235K. (using Inventor on NT)
I agree with Chris and Len - the ASCII and binary formats should be
the same structure.
If lots of data is really a quadmesh, then we can save some data by adding
quadmesh as a primitive. Since the connectivity is implicit, you do not
send it.
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