Re: [rp-ml] Colour STL files?

From: Adrian Bowyer <A.Bowyer_at_bath.ac.uk>
Date: Fri Nov 24 2006 - 12:38:21 EET

steve wrote:

> Aaaaarrrggggghhhhh!!!!!! Stupid, stupid, stupid!
>
> The STL format really is a piece of junk - that this could have
> become the de-facto standard across the entire industry is horrifying.
>
> We could have come up with a vastly better standard in about 2 minutes
> flat and fitted the description on the back of an envelope.

I could not agree more.

The Stanford PLY File Format
(http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/large_models/ply.html) would be a lot better.

Yours

Adrian

http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab
http://reprap.org
Received on Fri Nov 24 11:36:27 2006

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Jul 21 2009 - 10:27:52 EEST