[X3D-Public] OpenCTM - Compression of 3D triangle meshes

Don Brutzman brutzman at nps.edu
Tue Jan 1 12:28:55 PST 2013


cc: CAD working group, Consortium members

On 12/31/2012 2:01 PM, Don Brutzman wrote:
> OpenCTM — the Open Compressed Triangle Mesh file format — is a
> file format, a software library and a tool set for compression of 3D triangle
> meshes. The geometry is compressed to a fraction of comparable file formats
> (3DS, STL, VRML, COLLADA...), and the format is easily accessible through a
> simple, portable API.
> 
> http://openctm.sourceforge.net/

I was asked:
> So, how can we use this?

1. anybody out there want to write an X3D converter for this open-source codebase?
2. add it to the pile of candidate technologies that can be integrated into our forthcoming X3D Compressed Binary Encoding Call for Contributions
3. try to determine if any patents pertain.  am guessing not.

work in progress:
X3D Binary Compression Capabilities and Plans
http://web3d.org/x3d/wiki/index.php/X3D_Binary_Compression_Capabilities_and_Plans

all the best, Don
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