From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Subject: Re: 386 renderer progress
Date: 9 Jan 92 17:10:07 GMT
Organization: UNC-Chapel Hill Computer Science



In article <1992Jan8.220932.13882@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, broehl@watserv1.
waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes:

> I would encourage people using other formats to standardize on OFF, to make
> object-sharing easier.

    OFF has minimal power. It doesn't support surfaces other than
polygons, attributes other the color, or hierarchy, for example. It's
supposedly open to extensions, but that will require agreement on the
extensions. As long as all you want are polygon lists, it's fine.
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