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From: Renaud Aubin <aubin@nibua-r.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: 3D PDF support (AKA asymptote support)
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:28:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2971E4.1070001@nibua-r.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0906052140430.6092@MacBook-2.local>

Michail Vidiassov a écrit :
> While MeshLab may be of great use if you have to convert old data or 
> process output from some existing tool, in cases when you make your 
> model from scratch by hand or create 3D model file in your own program 
> Asymptote may be a better choice since it supports newer PRC 3D 
> format, that is much richer in features and has better prospects when 
> it comes to support and development by Adobe. On the minus side 
> Asymptote is under active development and some of its advantages are 
> not there yet - but so is ConTeXt.
Ouch, another new 3D format! This will never end. I bet no valuable Open 
Source modeler (i.e. blender) support this one. The fact that asy 
supports PRC is good but I have no illusion about the conclusion of the 
3d formats' war (just an endless pain for developpers)...

Renaud
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-05 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05 16:14 Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-05 17:32 ` luigi scarso
2009-06-05 18:02   ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-05 19:21     ` luigi scarso
2009-06-05 19:28     ` Renaud Aubin [this message]
2009-06-05 19:58       ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-05 20:15       ` luigi scarso
2009-06-06  4:07         ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-06  7:43           ` luigi scarso
2009-06-05 21:39 ` Hans Hagen
2009-06-06 18:06   ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-07 10:59     ` Hans Hagen

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