The Graphics File Formats Page

The Graphics File Formats Page

3D Geometry Specifications:

http://www.martinreddy.net/gfx/3d-hi.html

3DS - The 3D Studio Format

MLI - 3D Studio's Material-Library Format

BYU - Movie BYU file format

DEM - USGS Standards for Digital Elevation Models [Link]

DXF - Used by Autodesk's AutoCAD

DXF Release 13 specification [Link]

DXF Release 12 specification / [Link]

DXF Release 10 specification / [Link]

Creating DXF files

FIG - Used by REND386/AVRIL

FLT - MulitGen Inc.'s OpenFlight format [link]

GLC - File format information

HDF - Hierarchical Data Format [Link]

IGES - Initial Graphics Exchange Specification

IV - Open Inventor File Format Info [Link]

LWLO, LWOB & LWSC - Lightwave 3D file formats

LWLO - Lightwave 3D Layered Object

LWOB - Lightwave 3D Object

LWSC - Lightwave 3D Scene

MAZ - Used by Division's dVS/dVISE

MGF - Materials and Geometry Format [Link]

MSDL - Manchester Scene Description Language [Link]

NFF & ENFF - (Extended) Neutral File Format

NFF - Scene description language by Eric Haines

NFF - Used by Sense8's WorldToolKit

ENFF - Extensions to Eric Haines' NFF

OBJ - Wavefront Object Files

OFF - A 3D mesh Object File Format

OOGL - Object Oriented Graphics Library

PLG - Used by REND386/AVRIL

POV - Persistence of Vision ray-tracer

QD3D - Apple's QuickDraw 3D Metafile format [Link]

TDDD - Used by the Imagine & Turbo Silver ray-tracers

VIZ - Used by Division's dVS/dVISE

VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VRML97 ISO Specification [Link]

Version 1.0 Specification / [Link]

WLD - Used by REND386/AVRIL

Moving Image Resources:

MPEG - Moving Picture Expert Group

The MPEG-1 Archive and The MPEG-2 Archive [Link]

Lance Ladic's Info on the MPEG Format [Link]

MPEG Resources on the Web [Link]

MPEGe Lib: A library to help create MPEG movies [Link]

QuickTime - Info on QuickTime Movies

Apple's QuickTime Continuum [Link]

Lance Ladic's Info on the QuickTime Format [Link]

QuickTime players for a number of platforms [Link]

FLI/FLC - Autodesk's Flic Animation format

Flic format description

Further Flic format description

AVI - Microsoft's Audio Video Interleave format

Lance Ladic's Info on the AVI Format [Link]

OpenDML AVI File Format Extensions V1.0 [Link]

Short Overview of AVI features [Link]

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N.B. If you are interested in graphics viewers/converters for a particular format, please check the File Formats FAQ and the Graphics Utils' Site & Version FAQ.

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