To be perfectly accurate, IGES is also
a 3D geometry format - that's the problem
with putting IGES in as an "image" type
(unless we liberalize the notion of "image").
Would you support a new MIME type that
can embrace VRML, IGES, STEP and other 3D geometry?
If so, what would you call this new type?
If you do not support the notion of a new MIME type
I would like your opinion as to the
best place (type/subtype) to put VRML.
- Alan Peltzman
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Subject: Re: Re[2]: proposed new Media Type application/iges
Author: linas@innerdoor.austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) at smtp
Date: 03/22/95 06:20 PM
Hi,
> handling 3D images, and you could argue that you need different
VRML is not a 3D image format. It is a 3D geometry format.
For example:
GIF & JPEG are 2D image formats.
GKS is 2D geomtery format.
USGS Digital Elevation Models are 3D "image" formats; ditto
for MRI scanner output, PET Tomography, oil-field data, etc.
signed, the quibler, linas